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Photographers
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Babak A. Tafreshi
was born in 1978 in Tehran and currently lives in Germany. He is a photographer, a freelance science journalist, and astronomy communicator using all media.
Tafreshi is the founder and director of The World At Night (TWAN) international photography
project, also a board member of Astronomers Without Borders, contributing photographer of the Sky&Telesacope (a world's leading astronomy magazine), and a photo ambassador for the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Tafreshi received
the 2009 Lennart Nilsson Award, the world's most recognized award for scientific
photography, for his global contribution to night sky photography (the award was shared with Dr. Carolyn Porco of NASA's Cassini spacecraft mission). From 1997 to
2007 Tafreshi was an editor of the Astronomy Magazine of Iran (Nojum). 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 Amintafreshi |
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Oshin D. Zakarian is a Persian-Armenian photographer who was born in Tehran in 1977 and began his career in photography in 1992. He is completely devoted to photography of all kinds including nature, architecture, industry and products, people and portraiture. But Zakarian's main interest is in capturing nature and historical landmarks at night during astronomical events. Zakarian is one of the main members of The World at Night (TWAN) international photography project since the launch of the program in 2007. He feels that a strong emotional connection with nature helps a photographer produce greater impact in his photographs. His passion for imaging monuments of different cultures under the same starry sky has led him on many adventures. He particularly enjoys the deep blue light of twilight and the first and last light of the day in nature. He has a special eye for black and white photography and he often shuns today's common digital equipment in favor of traditional medium format film cameras. His photographs have appeared in many publications and on calendars as well as in America's best-known astronomy magazines. His work has been exhibited in Iran and in several European countries. Zakarian particularly enjoys capturing images of lonely trees standing amidst the trails of stars circling above them. He imagines the tree branches as the hands of a person stretching upward to touch the stars, while the tree's trunk connects Heaven and Earth. When photographing a historical monument with the stars above he can feel the passage of time -- the time that has passed since the monument was built. When the weather is good for photography, Zakarian will rarely be spotted in the city and whenever the weather is nice for photography, hardly anyone can find him in city. You can also follow his activities on Facebook.com/oshin.d.zakarian
Oshin D. Zakarian |
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