Meet Gity
Gity was born in Tehran, Iran, into a diplomatic family which descended from the previous ruling Royal Dynasty of the country. As a child she traveled through and lived in the Soviet Union, Europe and South America. From a young age her interest in photography was apparent. She started early on with cameras that took black and white pictures and then moved on to color photography when the new models were introduced. Her interests were in historical sites and art and craft work such as murals and stained glass doors and windows which were ever-present in the buildings and antique houses across Iran.
At eighteen she moved to Austria to study fine arts from her then home in the embassy in Russia. There she was influenced by sculptors, painters, and artists in all media. She continued pursuing her photography and her newly found interest in ancient European monuments and statues. In the meantime Gity also learned fabric design and sketching and later would dye her own fabrics and make her own fashions in her workshop in Iran.
Eventually though, life pulled her away from her passion. Political turmoil, and a series of personal tragedies focused her attention elsewhere, though she never forgot the photography nor her passion for the arts. Now, after a lifetime of joy and tribulations, Gity has found a renewed opportunity for her work. After having won a local photography contest which she entered on a whim, she has taken up a new and unique style of landscape photography interspersed with her collection of fireworks prints.
Gity believes pictures are important not only because they capture our memories, but also because they represent splendors of the world that we normally do not pay attention to.
"In a photo the viewer can look at a scene and discern an aspect of beauty that they paid attention to before- after that they will see that detail again and again in the world they live in. That is marvelous isn't it?" - Gity Arasteh Qajar
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