Maryam Kazemzadeh, a veteran photographer of Islamic Revolution and Holy Defense, has died

Maryam Kazemzadeh was born in 1956 in city of Shiraz. She was eldest child of a loving family of culture and art.

According to Artmag, on Nowruz 1973, she became interested in photography by donating a camera to him by his brother. In 1975, after graduating, he started teaching and a year later, at urging of his family, she left for England to continue his education. At that time, meeting The Union of Islamic Associations of European and American Universities was a new chapter in her life.

In 1978, in Neauphle-le-Château, Kazemzadeh photographed meetings, journalists, and other attendees, and came to Iran two days after Imam Khomeini arrived and never returned to Britain.

The late Kazemzadeh, started working as a photographer for (Enghelab Eslami Newspaper)Islamic Revolution newspaper, in April 1979. Her first mission in Marivan and meeting martyrs Dr. Mostafa Chamran and Abu Sharif, the commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and others, and experience of being with them, greatly influenced her political and social vision.

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With the start of Iraq-Iran war in October 1980, she went to Sarpolzahab as a journalist with Asghar Vesali, whom they had just married.

After martyrdom of Asghar Vesali, in November 1980, in Sarpolzahab, which was the most tragic event of Maryam Kazemzadeh’s life, and also end of her collaboration with Jomhuri newspaper, in late 1983, she joined Zan Rooz magazine and then started working as the editor of Kayhan Newspaper.

After many years and about thirty years later, the name of Maryam Kazemzadeh as a photographer, after publication of her book by Association of Photographers of Revolution and Holy Defense, came to fore again.

Dr. Minoo Badiei Dezfuli, a veteran journalist, writes about Maryam Kazemzadeh in the introduction to her photo book:
Maryam Kazemzadeh was born in this historical land and grew up in the Islamic Revolution; To remind a new face of an Iranian Muslim woman. A worthy and Muslim lady who, like millions of women in this land, completely destroyed old and distorted image of women’s backwardness.

The works of this front and war photographer are now kept in the treasury of Association of Revolutionary and Holy Defense Photographers.