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Sinna Nasseri

Sinna Nasseri (born in Los Angeles, CA) is an American photographer. His work focuses on documentary photography and portraiture, and it appears frequently in the New York Times and Vogue.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

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Nasseri attended Fordham University School of Law.[5] Until 2017, Nasseri was a lawyer for Latham & Watkins.[1] Born in Los Angeles, he is of Iranian descent.[1]

Work

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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 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]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Exposure: Photographer Sinna Nasseri". Creative Review. 2023-04-03. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  2. 1 2 "Sinna Nasseri's Photographic Odyssey Across America Concludes in New Mexico and Texas". Vogue. 2020-11-03. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  3. 1 2 3 "Take a Trip Inside the 2022 Met Gala With Photographer Sinna Nasseri". Vogue. 2022-05-04. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Greenawalt, Marysa; O’Neill, Laura; Ruben, Jolie; Webster, Amanda (2023-12-26). "2023 in Retrospect: 59 Photographs That Defined the Year in Arts". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  5. ↑ Pearce, Russell; Nasseri, Sinna (2012-01-01). "The Virtue of Low Barriers to Becoming a Lawyer: Promoting Liberal and Democratic Values [with Sinna Nasseri]". Int'l J. Legal Prof. 19: 35.
  6. 1 2 "Sinna Nasseri". Vogue. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  7. ↑ Peterson, Pia (2020-11-23). "He Set Out To Photograph The Country. He Never Predicted What 2020 Had In Store". BuzzFeed News. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  8. ↑ Trump's second impeachment trial: February 10, 2021 (DAY 2), 10 February 2021, retrieved 2024-01-16
  9. ↑ "Scenes from Election Protests in Maricopa County Arizona". TIME. 2020-11-07. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  10. 1 2 Nasseri, Sinna; Bengal, Rebecca (2023-03-21). "Why Look at Planes?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  11. ↑ Buchanan, Kyle (2023-01-04). "Meet the Newer, Bolder Michelle Williams". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  12. ↑ Pappademas, Alex (2023-11-14). "He Won't Stop Taking Pictures Until He's Partying on the Other Side". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  13. ↑ Shattuck, Kathryn (2023-10-17). "John Stamos Is Done With Being Someone's Idea of John Stamos". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  14. ↑ Buchanan, Kyle (2023-02-14). "At the Oscar Nominees Luncheon, a Crowd in Cruise Control". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  15. ↑ Gilbert, Sarah; Saner, Emine (2023-12-26). "The photographs that defined 2023 – and the stories behind them". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
  16. ↑ "I Didn't Bring Food to Burning Man. Here's How I Survived the Week". Bon Appétit. 2023-09-08. Retrieved 2024-01-16.
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