Iranian Butterfly.

this photograph is a conceptual look at an Iranian women who are voiceless and are being guided by men's way of thinking in every part of their lives.

  • Katayoun Afrooz
    Photographer
  • Mahtab Maskani
    Model
  • Date Taken:
    March 7, 2022
  • Camera:
    EOS SD MARK IV
  • Lens:
    EF24-105mm
  • Focal Length:
    45.00 mm
  • Shutter Speed:
    1/80
  • Aperture:
    f/5.0
  • ISO / Film:
    800
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Los Angeles Photography Awards
    Los Angeles, CA
    September 30, 2022
    Best Photography
Artist Biography

Katayoun Afrooz is an Iranian visual artist and filmmaker and photographer. Katayoun undertook her formal education and training in film and visual arts in the United States. She holds a MFA in filmmaking and visual arts from Columbia college . Furthermore, she studied filmmaking and video art under critically-acclaimed Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami.
She also studied western philosophy at a private school in Tehran.

Spending half of her life in the east and half in the west, Katayoun main concern is women identity & sexuality, human experience and above all the notion of one ‘s self. which she is exploring through moving images.

As a filmmaker she is more interested in experiment rather than traditional ways of storytelling.

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