Amak Mahmoodian, was born in Shiraz in Iran in 1980, the year of the establishment of the Iranian revolution. She currently lives in Bristol, England, where she teaches on the BA and MA courses in photography at the University of the West of England. She graduated from the University of South Wales with a practice-based PHD in photography in 2015 and prior to that received her degree and an MA from the Art University of Tehran.

Amak’s first book, Shenasnameh, was jointly published in 2016 by IC Visual Labs and RRB books and sold out it’s 300 copy print run within t ...