Nikol Faridani, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Iranian photographer
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Place of Birth: Shiraz, Fars Province, Iran
About Nikol Faridani
- Nikol Faridani (28 December 1935 – 6 February 2008) (Persian: ????? ???????) was a popular Iranian Armenian photographer.
- Faridani was born in 1935 in Shiraz.
- His family moved to Isfahan when he was two and he completed his elementary education at the Shah Abbas School in Jolfa.
- Then they moved to Tehran and later to Kerman, and ultimately returned to Tehran in 1955.
- He got a job with the Iranian Oil Company, where he worked as a photographer for four years.
- He then was transferred to the Oil Consortium, where he worked for 15 years, gaining experience in geological photography, photomicrography, and aerial photography.
- He logged over 300 hours in the air as an aerial photographer.
- He quit in 1975 and started his own business. Faridani was well known for photographing nature, especially deserts.
- He travelled extensively in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Afghanistan. Faridani died on 6 February 2008, after suffering from prostate cancer, pneumonia, and Parkinson's disease.
- He is survived by two daughters from his first marriage.
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