Ramak Fazel

 

 

Born in Iran, than emigrated to United States with his family, Ramak Fazel biography has always dealing with traveling. After obtaining a degree in Mechanical Engineering, he changes his life direction studing photography in New York.

 

Since 1994 he lives and works in Milano as a professional photographer collaborating with design and architecture magazines such as Abitare, Casa Brutus and Domus where he has contributed as a contract photographer since 1996. He has also collaborated with numerous firms such as Flos and Desalto. Over the course of the last 2 years he has taught at the Italian Institute for Photography in Milano while holding workshops at SUPSI University in Lugano Switzerland and DAE in Eindhoven, Holland. The coursework has explored the junction between photography and uncommon personal experience.

 

His area of interest and personal projects in Iran, Italy, Japan and the U.S. concentrate on the concept of identity and the appearance of "places". He tends to focalize on aspects that are somehow far from the "quotidian".

 

In 2006 he was selected as a finalist in the Bariphotocamera Prize.