I am Zahra Ostadzadeh, born in 1984, a resident of Qom. I am graduated in M.A. degree in the field of sociology. I started documentary photography since 2010. The most activities of me has been within internal festivals.

After some years of photographing purposelessly and sporadically I travelled to my countries deprived regions, and by considering my compatriots living conditions , I decided to deal with photo collection.

Internal Festivals:

• Third place in News Section with the subject of Culture and Art  (6^th festival- 2011)
• Second place in News Section with the subject of Sports (6^th festival-2011)
• Third place; Horse Industry Competitions; 2011
• Top photos of years 2009 and 2010
• Golden Candidate in 5^th festival of Iran’s Photo Agency
• Participating in Ashoura-oriented group exhibit in Kashan- 2012
• Participating in Gray Photographers group exhibit (Ashoura-oriented photos- 2011)
• Participating in Gray Photographers group exhibit-2010
• Participating in group exhibit of Iran’s Photo Agency’s 6^th festival (Culture and Art section)
• Participating in group exhibit of Iran’s Photo Agency’s 6^th festival (Sports section)
• Participating in Iran’s Photo Agency’s group exhibit in Isfahan (2011)
• Entering the Qom biannual festival-2011
• Basij festival’s chosen photo- 2013
• Being qualified for the seminary school competitions- participating in seminary school’s photo exhibit
• Individual exhibit for the individual photo of Azad University (place of my education)
• Solo exhibit for solo photo in Azad University (place of my education)
• Ashoura Moments photo exhibit in Qom
• News photography activity in PANA news agency for 6 months
• Activity in ILNA news agency for 1 year
• Participating in everydayiran group exhibit-2016

2- Foreign festivals

• Entering the UAE photo festival competitions (Portrait section 2012)