DEVASTATING FLOODS

AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH AHMAD KHATIRI

- JOSÉ JEULAND

AHMAD KHATIRI, Born in 1978, in Kordkoy, Golestan, IRAN. A member of the International Federation of Photographic World (Fiap) & ARTIST FIAP (A.F.I.A.P.)

KHATIRI received his B.A. in Graphic Design (Visual Communication) and in his early years, he graduated in photography and film making from Iran Youth Cinema Association. He became a Lecturer at Azad University, Tehran, and he is also the Founder and CEO of the Center for Communications advertising.

KHATIRI has received a certification of photojournalism photography from World Press Photo of the Netherlands and a certification of Documentary Film making from wasting Woods Mumbai University India.

In this Interview we focus on two series; the Devastating Floods features the 2006 floods in Golestan province, in the north of Iran, that brought great pain and sorrow, and the Fishermen series, which focus on the Pareh fishermen in the Golestan province in the north of Iran.

José Jeuland: Hello Ahmad, Can you tell our readers your background? How did you start photography, and when?

Ahmad Khatiri: Thank you José, It's a pleasure having this interview. In 1988 and 1989, when I was 11 and 12 years old, my interest in photography started. Back then, my older brother, Mohammed, was learning photography and photographing, and that inspired me to start photography. At about the same time in 1990 in school, one of my best teachers, Mr. Zabihi, made me more enthusiastic about art, so I decided to go to the school of art. In 1992 when I was studying at the school of art, I enrolled in a one-year course in photography and filmmaking at the Iranian Young Cinema Society.