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Mehdi Moghimnejad
Born	(1976-07-27) July 27, 1976 (age 48) Babol (Iran)
Nationality	Iranian
Education	Art Studies
Known for	Photography
Movement	Conceptual photography Visual Art
Website	http://moghimnejad.com/

Mehdi Moghimnejad (Persian:مهدی مقیم‌نژاد) (born1976) is an Iranian contemporary art photographer, academician and theorist best known as one of the pioneers of photograph manipulation in digital era in Iran.

Mehdi Moghimnejad is an Iranian fine art photographer and conceptual photographer. He was born in 27 July 1976 (Officially: 3 August 1975) in Babol. He always emphasizes the influence of the atmosphere of this northern city on the world of his imagination. Since he was a teenager, he was fond of literature, poetry, theater and cinema. He mentions the artistic and intellectual circles of masters such as Rahim Mowlaian ^[1] and Ahmad Nasrollahi ^[2] in the early 1990s in Babol as very progressive and fateful spaces. He later chose photography as his main artistic medium.

Moghimnejad got a B.A. in Graphic Design in 1999, M.F.A in photography in 2001 and P.h.D. in Art Studies in 2010 from Iran University of Art (TUA). Since 2000 and at the same time as his doctoral studies, he has been a visiting professor in undergraduate and graduate degrees in the fields of photography, graphic design and cinema in universities such as Iran University of Art, College of Fine Arts (University of Tehran), Isfahan University of Art, Soore university and Islamic Azad university. Since 2009, Moghimnejad became a member of the Faculty of Visual Arts of Iran University of Art with the rank of Assistant Professor. ^[3]

Also, Moghimnejad has been the advisor of more than fifty master's and doctoral dissertations in the fields of photography and art studies. ^[4]

Since 2000, Moghimnejad has played a prominent role in contemporary Iranian art as a lecturer, critic, translator, curator, art director, member of jury boards and policy-making councils. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

Moghimnejad's photography world can be described as a dialogue with the history and culture of Iran. With a very personal hyper realistic photomontage method, which he called Verisimilitudes, since 2000, he has tried to have a questioning and conceptual look at the various strains of Iran's history in numerous collections. From this point of view, Moghimnejad should be considered as one of the pioneers of the photograph manipulation approach in the digital era in Iranian contemporary art. ^{[8] [9] [10] [11] [12]} Moghimnejad has had four solo exhibitions and participated in more than fifty group exhibitions ^{[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]}, Art Fairs and Art Auctions inside and outside of Iran such as US ^[20] and UK. ^{[21] [22] [23] [24] [25]}

Also, except for photography, Moghimnejad has also been active in other artistic mediums. For example, we can mention his presence in the internationally recognized this situation, a performance by acclaimed British-German Tino Segal, a Turner prize-nominated artist in November 2011, which was held in cooperation with the Goethe Institute in Tehran. ^[26]

Or as another example, Moghimnejad has designed the title sequence of the Noah's Ark documentary directed by Soudabeh Babagap. This film won awards in numerous international festivals and its title sequence was noticed. Also, in the year of its production, this film won the Crystal Simorgh Award as the best documentary film from the 21st Fajr International Film Festival in 2001.

Or as another example, Moghimnejad, as a poet, published his collection of poems between 1994-2000 in a book titled "The Rain of Jackal" by Herfe Honarmand publication in 2016. This book was nominated for the third edition of the Ahmad Shamloo poetry award as the best collection of Persian poetry in 2015.

• Verisimilitudes (Chapter five: Divine Intervention), Mohsen gallery, 2014 ^[27]
• Verisimilitudes (Chapter four: Found History), Mohsen gallery,2013
• Verisimilitudes (Chapter two: In the middle of eastern winds), No.6 gallery, 2009
• Fly of Mind (The initial period of photomontage works), Barg gallery, 2001

Moghimnejad has written more than a hundred articles in English and Persian in Photo (Aks) Monthly, Tandis Visual Art Biweekly, Art (Honar) Quarterly, Art-Profession (Herfe-Honarmand) Quarterly, Monthly Book of Art (Ketaab-e-Mah-e-Honar), Binaab Quarterly, Cinema and Literature (Cinema-va-Adabiaat) Quarterly, Art Tomorrow (Honar-e-Farda) Quarterly, Jam-e-Jam newspaper, Sharqh newspaper, Etemad newspaper, Daily Star newspaper and Apollonia Art Foundation ^[28]. A list of his Academic publishing is also available. ^[29]

Moreover, since 2000, Moghimnejad has held more than sixty lectures, workshops, panel discussions ^{[30] [31]}, artist talks and master classes.

Among his other research and editorial activities, we can mention the following:

• Advisor professor of Calotype Quarterly: Photography magazine of Tehran University of Art (TUA), special issue: Photo-histography, No.15, September 2023
• Technical editor and Introduction writer of «Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art: Selection of International Photos» book, TMoCA publishing, Tehran, summer 2021
• Advisor professor of Calotype Quarterly: Photography magazine of Tehran University of Art (TUA), special issue: photography and Spectatorship, No.14, September 2021
• Advisor professor of Calotype Quarterly: Photography magazine of Tehran University of Art (TUA), special issue: photography and subaltern, No.13, winter 2021
• Guest Editor of Photography section, Tandis biweekly, Vol 263, Nov 2013
• Guest Editor of Photography section, Art-Profession (Herfe-Honarmand) Quarterly, Vol.48, Autumn 2013
• Editor in chief of Multimedia Arts section, Art (HONAR) Quarterly, 2005-2010
• Editor in chief of BINAB Quarterly special issue on Photography, 2008

• Contemporary photography and theory: concepts and debates, Sally Miller, translated by Mehdi Moghimnejad, Gilgamesh publishing, 2023, ISBN: 978-622-7858-46-5 ^[32]
• In Praise of the Real: selected texts about art and photography (2004-2014) (two volumes), Pargar Publishing Co.2018, ISBN: 978-600-97136-3-9
• The Rain of Jackal: Selected Poems 1994-2000, Herfe Honarmand Pub,2016 (Nominated of Third Ahmad Shamloo Poetry Award 2017), ISBN:978-600-5759-60-0
• Art of digital age, Bruce Wands ^[33], translated by Mehdi Moghimnejad, Sureh Mehr Pub,2015, ISBN:978-600-175-785-3
• Photography and Theory-Structuralism and post structuralism in photo criticism: A comparative study, Mehdi Moghimnejad, Sooreh Mehr Pub,2014 (3rd edition 2019), ISBN:978-600-175-705-1
• Semiotics of photography, Goran Sonesson ^[34], translated by Mehdi Moghimnejad, Elm Pub,1998 (4rd edition.2020), ISBN:978-964-405-990-2
• Where the sunset delays: selected of American contemporary poets, selected and translated by Mehdi Moghimnejad, Sales Pub,1996, ISBN:964-380-185-3

• An Introduction to Iranian Contemporary Art,2014, Hamid Keshmirshekan, Nazar publication, Tehran (Third Edition 2023), ISBN: 978-600-152-245-1
• Contemporary Photography of Iran (Evolution of photographic view to reality from 1975 to 2011), 2022, Aram Mohammadi, Aban Publication, Tehran, ISBN: 978-622-6025-05-8
• Contemporary Iranian Art: New Prespectives, 2013, Hamid Keshmirshekan, Saqi Publication, London, ISBN: 978-0-86356-721-6

Two Artworks of Mehdi Moghimnejad are kept in the following permanent treasure:

Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts