CV
2025
ONE Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria – Solo show “Altered Realms” featured on Channel 1 Bulgarian National Television https://bnt.bg/news/izlozhbata-transformirani-realnosti-na-shahriar-mazandi-v385151-337027news.html
ONE Gallery press coverage:
https://trud.bg/a/articles/минимализъм-и-индустриални-пейзажи-от-шахриар-мазанди
2024
PX3 Prix De La Photographie Awards, Paris, France – https://designyoutrust.com/2024/07/spectacular-award-winning-photos-of-the-prix-de-la-photographie-awards/
Aesthetica Art Prize – Longlist
2023
Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy – https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyoLrYdIpZI/
Analog Sparks International Film and Photography Awards – Gold Medal in Lifestyle/Culture subsection
Visual Art Open – VAO Art Prize – Longlist
2022
TIFA – Tokyo International Foto Awards – Finalist – Honourable Mention
The Sussex Contemporary at the British Airways i360, Brighton, East Sussex – Finalist
2021
Karnik Gallery, Mayfair, London – Solo show: “Lyrical Tales”
2012
MoP CAP at Art Dubai – ‘The Five Pachucos’ featured as part of event hosted by Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize during Art Dubai 2012 with an international selection of works by various Iranian-born artists and photographers.
2008
Harrow School retrospective – Harrovian Photographers Throughout the Ages – From Henry Fox Talbot, Cecil Beaton, to Patrick Litchfield, to today’s photographers – greatest number of works on display of any living photographer.
2005
RHS Chelsea Flower Show – Gold medal for the Lalique Garden. Featured in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chic
2001
Photographs internationally syndicated by Katz Pictures/Camera Press, being featured in the Sunday Times magazine, BBC Top Gear Magazine, etc in the UK, and numerous other publications around the world. The subject matter syndicated was street gangs and automotive culture in California.
2001
‘Ghosts and Machines’ – solo photographic show at Andipa Gallery, Walton Street, Chelsea, London featuring gang and automotive culture in California.
1995
Twenty two photographs from the series ‘Cars for Kings, Movie Stars and Tyrants’, exhibited as part of the permanent collection of the Blackhawk Museum in Danville, California – one of the world’s foremost and most important automotive collections.
1995
Featured work as the poster advertising the Historic Car event in the city of Monterey, California. Other Blackhawk Collection images as sponsored by Daimler Chrysler for the Historic Automotive Weekend.
1993
The Anza Borrego and other South Western Deserts – solo photographic exhibition at the Royal Geographical Society, Kensington Gore, London.
1984
Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles CA – one year of studies before enrolment at Pepperdine University for BA in Communication
1983
Brighton College of Art and Design, Brighton, East Sussex – Foundation Studies
1981 – 1982
Harrow School, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex – Winner of senior prize for art two years consecutively