Background
Firooz Zahedi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1949.
Firooz Zahedi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1949.
His family moved to England where he received his secondary education. In 1969 he came to the United States to attend Georgetown University in Washington District of Columbia. After graduating with a degree in Foreign Service in 1973, he served briefly as a diplomat for the former government of Iran but resigned to go to the Corcoran School of Art from which he received a degree in visual communication in 1976. Whilst at art school he began photographing for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine and served as its Washington District of Columbia correspondent.
The photographs from that trip, which included the actress dressed in local tribal costumes, alongside portraits he took of her on the set of “A little Night Music” in Vienna became the subject of the cover story of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in October 1976.
In 1978 he accompanied Elizabeth Taylor to Hollywood as her personal photographer on the set of the film “Return Engagement”. He settled in Los Angeles to pursue his photographic career.
He subsequently moved to Los Angeles, and started his professional career as a photographer. Museums
In February 2011 a collection of his photographs of Elizabeth Taylor in Iran was exhibited at the Los Angeles County museum of Artist
Galleries
His portraits and fine art photography have been shown in New York at the Staley Wise gallery and Leila Heller Gallery.
Internationally at the Laleh June Gallery in Basel, Switzerland, and the Doha and Dubai Art Fairs. Upcoming
A solo show of his work, “Firooz Zahedi - Photographs and collages” is scheduled for April 26 to June 7, 2014 at the Paul Kopeikin Gallery in Los Los Angeles (kopeikingallerycom).