My name is Javad Moghimi Parsa. I’m Iranian and now I’m a citizen in Norway. I have been working as a photographer for about 17 years. Actually, I started photography when I was 18 years old. At the beginning I worked as a waiter in a restaurant in Sari, in Northern Iran, to earn some money to buy a camera for myself.
AWARDS/GRANT:
2019-2021- Norwegian Journal of Photography (NJP)
2018 & 2019: I received a grant from Fritt Ord to continue the work on my documentary project of exile Iranians around the world.
2016: Winner a grant from Fritt Ord to continue the work on my documentary project of exile Iranians around the world.
2014-2015: Winner a grant from the University of Amsterdam to make a Photo Documentary of "irregular" transit migrants in Turkey’.
2014: Winner of FotoVisura Grant for outstanding Personal Photography project.
2014: Top 30 under 30 Magnum Photos.
2014: Honorable Mention, Norwegian picture of the year.Oslo-Norway.
2014: I was selected as a finalist in The 2014 Aftermath Project grant.
2013: Joop Swart Masterclass participant, World Press Photo. Netherlands.
2008: 1st place: Iranian photo Festival. Orumiyeh-Iran.
2007: World Press Photo Workshop (the workshop was cancelled due to political clashes between Iran & Netherlands)
2006: 1st place: Iranian Press Festival.Tehran-Iran.
2006: 1st place: Iranian Photography Biennale.Tehran-Iran.
Work Experience:
Present: Dagens Næringsliv (DN) & Dine Penger, as freelance photographer, Norway
2013: Verdens Gang (VG), as freelance photographer, Norway
2011-2012: Dagens Næringsliv (DN), as freelance photographer, Norway
2009-2010: Freelance photographer, working on a project documenting the plight of Iranian refugees in Turkey
2005-2009: Fars News Agency (Tehran) as Photographer for the semi official Iranian news agency
2004-2005: “Hoze Honari Organization” (Culture Center) in Mazandaran north Iran. Photographer. Sari, Iran
Exhibitions:
2014- Top 30 Under 30 Magnum Photos, The Photography Show, NEC Birmingham.
2012- DN photo exhibition at Photo Video in Oslo, Norway.
2011- Photo exhibition at the Mai senteret in Lørenskog, Norway.
2010- Photo exhibition at the gallery Hofficina Art in Rome, Italy.
2010- Ian Parry Award Exhibition, Getty Images Gallery, London, England (group).
2008- Photo exhibition “Hajj” in Tehran, Iran. September.