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Photographers
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Babak A. Tafreshi
was born in 1978 in Tehran. He is a photographer and science journalist,
the founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN) international photography
project, also a board member of Astronomers Without Borders. Tafreshi received
the 2009 Lennart Nilsson Award, the world's most recognized award for scientific
photography, for his global contribution to night sky photography. From 1997 to
2007 Tafreshi was an editor of the Astronomy Magazine of Iran (Nojum). He
served as the editor-in-chief for several years too. He has appeared many times
on television and radio programs on astronomy and has met and interviewed many
world-renowned astronomers and space scientists. He has been a board member
of the Astronomical Society of Iran's Amateur Committee from 2001 and has organized
many national astronomy events, including Iran's annual national Messier
Marathon. Through The World at Night, which was designated as the first Special
Project of International Year of Astronomy 2009, Tafreshi cooperated with the
International Astronomical Union and UNESCO as one of the project coordinators for IYA2009.
Photo by: david Makepeace
Babak Amin Tafreshi |
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Oshin D. Zakarian was born in 1977 in Tehran, Iran. His career in photography in general and astrophotography in particular began in 1992. His main interest in photography is to capture Nature and History of the country at night along with astronomical events. He thinks that a strong emotional connection with nature helps a photographer to produce much more deep impact in a photograph. He captures different monuments of different cultures all under the same starry sky.
He loves
first light and the last light in nature and waits for the best moment
to capture a specific image. He uses two Olympus bodies along a wide
selection of lenses from 24mm to 300mm.
Oshin D. Zakarian |
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