Shahin Shahablou
Shahin Shahablou (27 January 1964 – 15 April 2020) was an Iranian photographer.
He was raised in Tehran. His love of photography led to a bachelor’s and then a master’s degree in the subject from the University of Tehran. He taught photography, enjoyed solo exhibitions in Iran and India, became a photojournalist and a board member of the Iranian Photojournalists Association. He was homosexual.
In 2011 he fled Iran, where he had been imprisoned as a political prisoner, for Britain, where he gained refugee status. There he was known for capturing LGBT subjects. He also worked as a photographer for Amnesty International.[1] Alongside photography, Shahablou worked in a supermarket.
Shahablou died of COVID-19, aged 56, on 15 April 2020.[2]
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