Born in Iran and moving to the United States with his family, Ramak Fazel’s biography has always dealt with traveling. After obtaining a degree in mechanical engineering, he changed his life’s direction and studied photography in New York.
Since 1994 he’s lived and worked in Milano as a professional photographer collaborating with design and architecture magazines such as Abitare, Casa Brutus, and Domus where he has been a contract photographer since 1996. He has also collaborated with numerous firms such as Flos and Desalto. Over the course of the last 2 years he has taught at the Italian Institute for Photography in Milano while holding workshops at SUPSI University in Lugano Switzerland and DAE in Eindhoven, Holland. The coursework has explored the junction between photography and uncommon personal experiences.
His area of interest and personal projects in Iran, Italy, Japan and the U.S. concentrate on the concept of identity and the appearance of “places”. He tends to focalize on aspects that are somehow far from the quotidian.
In 2006 he was selected as a finalist in the Bariphotocamera Prize.
