Azar EMDADI

Born in Iran Western Azerbaijan, Azar obtained her BA in Multi-disciplinary Design specialising in Photography at Stafford shire Polytechnic in 1989. In 1996 these skills were developed further through a Postgraduate course in Gender Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, where Azar majored in the field of ‘Women in Film.’

Then in 1990 she was commissioned to document the war with Armenia in Soviet Azerbaijan. This extremely sensitive and important work was published internationally in many journals. Azar has since applied her skills as ‘Photography Education Co-ordinator’ for the Pavilion Woman’s Art Gallery in Leeds where, during the 90’s, she initiated and managed an innovative photographic project for women. Azar Emdadi has held various exhibitions both in the UK and internationally, including a solo show at the World Cultural House of Berlin, Homeland society Baku and Silk Road Gallery in Tehran and in the UK at Stoke on Trent Museum,Leicester City Hall, St David Hall Cardiff, Graves Art Gallery Sheffield and London Rose Issa Project and Art Space Dubai & London.