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American Photographer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sinna Nasseri (born in Los Angeles, CA) is an Iranian-American photographer.[1] His work focuses on documentary photography and portraiture, and it appears frequently in the New York Times and Vogue.[1][2][3][4]
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Nasseri attended Fordham University School of Law.[5] Until 2017, Nasseri was a lawyer for Latham & Watkins.[1]
In 2020, eight of Nasseri’s photo essays were published by Vogue[6] documenting the ways Americans responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the 2020 presidential election.[2][3][7][6] In 2021, Nasseri’s photographs of a Stop the Steal rally in Arizona were used in the second Impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump.[8][9] In 2022, Nasseri was commissioned by Vogue to photograph the Met Gala, themed “In America: An Anthology of Fashion.”[3] In 2023, New York Times published Nasseri’s “Plane Spotters” photo series.[10]
The New York Times’s article “2023 in Retrospect: 59 Photographs That Defined the Year in Arts” included six photographs by Nasseri.[4] Images included portraits of Michelle Williams,[11][4] Henry Diltz,[12][4] and John Stamos,[13][4] documentation of the Oscar Nominees Luncheon,[14][4] and the “Plane Spotters” photo series.[10][4]
The Guardian’s article “The photographs that defined 2023 – and the stories behind them” included Nasseri’s documentation of Burning Man.[15][16]
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