I was born in Ahvaz / Iran in 1969 and spent most of my childhood in various cities of Iran. From Ahvaz to Bandar Abbas, to Abadan, and Tehran, where I remained until the age of 13. After which in 1982 my family and I made the move to London, where I live and work now.

Ever since a young age, I've played around with cameras and taken pictures of just about everything. This I blame on my father. He introduced me to cameras by sticking a lens in my face at any given opportunity. His first SLR cameras were a Pentax Spotmatic, and a Minolta X-700, which he still has, but they've seen bett...

I was born in Ahvaz / Iran in 1969 and spent most of my childhood in various cities of Iran. From Ahvaz to Bandar Abbas, to Abadan, and Tehran, where I remained until the age of 13. After which in 1982 my family and I made the move to London, where I live and work now.

Ever since a young age, I've played around with cameras and taken pictures of just about everything. This I blame on my father. He introduced me to cameras by sticking a lens in my face at any given opportunity. His first SLR cameras were a Pentax Spotmatic, and a Minolta X-700, which he still has, but they've seen better days. These were my cameras for a while, whilst growing up here in London. Strangely enough, I never learned anything about focal lengths, aperture, or shutter speed with any of these two. I found myself needing to know all this when I bought my first DSLR.