Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Farima Fooladi Date: May 2018 http://www.farimafooladi.com Farima Fooladi was born in Tehran, Iran. She is currently living in the United States creating paintings in her Studio in Pennsylvania. Farima is a Visiting Scholar at the Pennsylvania state University, College of Arts and Architecture where she completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing. She has had numerous group exhibitions in Iran, Turkey, and the United States. Her works includes commentary on imagery, themes, symbols and stories from Iranian visual and literature. Her recent research topic has been collective trauma and its long effect on cultures. She is fascinated by the lasting impact of collective trauma caused by Invasion, Migration and displacement. The Glorious Invasion Series are the result of her work on the Mongol Invasion of Iran in 1220. Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.

Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Farima Fooladi Date: May 2018 http://www.farimafooladi.com Farima Fooladi was born in Tehran, Iran. She is currently living in the United States creating paintings in her Studio in Pennsylvania. Farima is a Visiting Scholar at the Pennsylvania state University, College of Arts and Architecture where she completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing. She has had numerous group exhibitions in Iran, Turkey, and the United States. Her works includes commentary on imagery, themes, symbols and stories from Iranian visual and literature. Her recent research topic has been collective trauma and its long effect on cultures. She is fascinated by the lasting impact of collective trauma caused by Invasion, Migration and displacement. The Glorious Invasion Series are the result of her work on the Mongol Invasion of Iran in 1220. Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.

Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Grant Greider Date: April 2018 Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.

Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Grant Greider Date: April 2018 Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.

Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Morehshin Allahyari Date: April 2018 http://www.morehshin.com Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, educator, and occasional curator. She is the recipient of the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine. Morehshin was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document our personal and collective lives struggles in the 21st century. Morehshin is the co-author of The 3D Additivist Cookbook in collaboration with writer/artist Daniel Rourke– (published on December 2016 online in 3DPDF format and in print by the Institute of Networked Cultures). Her modeled, 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, titled Material Speculation: ISIS, have received widespread curatorial and press attention and have been exhibited worldwide. Morehshin has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops around the world including Venice Biennale di Archittectura, Pompidou Center, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Tate Modern, Queens Museum, Pori Museum, Powerhouse Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Jeu de Paume, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Museum für Angewandte Kunst. She has been an artist in residence at BANFF Centre (2013), Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (2015), Autodesk Pier9 Workshop in San Francisco (2015), and the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research in association with Transmediale, Berlin (2016), Eyebeam’s one year Research Residency (2016-2017) in NYC. Her work has been featured in the New YorkTimes, Huffington Post, Wired, National Public Radio, Parkett Art Magazine, Frieze, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, and Al Jazeera, among others Allahyari is currently developing a new body of work on Digital Colonialism and ‘re-Figuring’ as a Feminism and de-colonialism practice, using 3D scanners and 3D printers as her tools of investigation. Researching dark goddesses, monstrous, and djinn female figures of Middle-Eastern origin, Allahyari devises a narrative through practices of magic and poetic-speculative storytelling, re-appropriation of traditional mythologies, collaging, meshing, scanning, and archiving. She was recently awarded two major commissions by Rhizome as well as the Whitney museum of Art, Liverpool Biennale, and FACT to work on developing archival and web-based aspects of this project. Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.

Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Morehshin Allahyari Date: April 2018 http://www.morehshin.com Morehshin Allahyari is an artist, activist, educator, and occasional curator. She is the recipient of the leading global thinkers of 2016 award by Foreign Policy magazine. Morehshin was born and raised in Iran and moved to the United States in 2007. Her work deals with the political, social, and cultural contradictions we face every day. She thinks about technology as a philosophical toolset to reflect on objects and as a poetic means to document our personal and collective lives struggles in the 21st century. Morehshin is the co-author of The 3D Additivist Cookbook in collaboration with writer/artist Daniel Rourke– (published on December 2016 online in 3DPDF format and in print by the Institute of Networked Cultures). Her modeled, 3D-printed sculptural reconstructions of ancient artifacts destroyed by ISIS, titled Material Speculation: ISIS, have received widespread curatorial and press attention and have been exhibited worldwide. Morehshin has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops around the world including Venice Biennale di Archittectura, Pompidou Center, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Tate Modern, Queens Museum, Pori Museum, Powerhouse Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Jeu de Paume, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, Museum für Angewandte Kunst. She has been an artist in residence at BANFF Centre (2013), Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (2015), Autodesk Pier9 Workshop in San Francisco (2015), and the Vilém Flusser Residency Program for Artistic Research in association with Transmediale, Berlin (2016), Eyebeam’s one year Research Residency (2016-2017) in NYC. Her work has been featured in the New YorkTimes, Huffington Post, Wired, National Public Radio, Parkett Art Magazine, Frieze, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, and Al Jazeera, among others Allahyari is currently developing a new body of work on Digital Colonialism and ‘re-Figuring’ as a Feminism and de-colonialism practice, using 3D scanners and 3D printers as her tools of investigation. Researching dark goddesses, monstrous, and djinn female figures of Middle-Eastern origin, Allahyari devises a narrative through practices of magic and poetic-speculative storytelling, re-appropriation of traditional mythologies, collaging, meshing, scanning, and archiving. She was recently awarded two major commissions by Rhizome as well as the Whitney museum of Art, Liverpool Biennale, and FACT to work on developing archival and web-based aspects of this project. Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.

Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Prince Harvey Date: April 2018 Artist / Musician / Producer www.Princeharvey.com Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.

Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Prince Harvey Date: April 2018 Artist / Musician / Producer www.Princeharvey.com Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.

Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Elham Hajesmaeili Date: April 2018 https://www.instagram.com/elhamhajesmaeili/ https://sova.psu.edu/profile/elhamhajesmaeili-nooghi Artist Born in Iran, In1984, Elham Hajesmaeili received a BFA in Handicrafts from Shiraz University in 2002, and received a MA in Art studies from University of Art, Tehran, Iran in 2010. She held some Group and solo painting exhibitions in different cities of Iran. Currently she studies and works at Penn State University as a graduate student. From 2015 when she arrived in the United States, Since she is experiencing living in a liminal space between Iranian and American cultures, she has continued her works based on the identity issue. Her works represent an observation of an identity shifting between two geographical context, while sexuality remains the silent power holder. Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.

Photographed by: Amir Aghareb (Amirmasoud Agharebparast) Model: Elham Hajesmaeili Date: April 2018 https://www.instagram.com/elhamhajesmaeili/ https://sova.psu.edu/profile/elhamhajesmaeili-nooghi Artist Born in Iran, In1984, Elham Hajesmaeili received a BFA in Handicrafts from Shiraz University in 2002, and received a MA in Art studies from University of Art, Tehran, Iran in 2010. She held some Group and solo painting exhibitions in different cities of Iran. Currently she studies and works at Penn State University as a graduate student. From 2015 when she arrived in the United States, Since she is experiencing living in a liminal space between Iranian and American cultures, she has continued her works based on the identity issue. Her works represent an observation of an identity shifting between two geographical context, while sexuality remains the silent power holder. Copyrighted, 2018, This image is protected by U.S. and International Laws. Reproduction, utilization or distribution of this image without written permission from the author, Amirmasoud Agharebparast, is strictly prohibited.