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# Hossein Jafarian

Cinematographer. Born 25 March 1944 in Tehran.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 25 March 1944, Tehran
- **Also known as:** حسین جعفریان
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Jafarian, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5909056, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0229067/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1534556

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Salesman*](https://film.one/film/the-salesman.md) (72)

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## Biography

Hossein Jafarian is an Iranian cinematographer and screenwriter. Born in Tehran in 1944, he studied at the Iran Broadcasting University and began his career working for Iranian state-run television, where he shot over 40 documentaries and television programmes before retiring soon after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

His feature-film debut came in the mid-1980s. He established himself as a leading cinematographer with *Nargess* (1992) and went on to shoot several acclaimed Iranian films, including *Through the Olive Trees* (1994), *Crimson Gold* (2003), *Fireworks Wednesday* (2006), *About Elly* (2009) and *The Salesman* (2016). He has worked with directors including Rakhshan Banietemad, Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi.

Jafarian was voted best cinematographer of the Iranian decade 2001–2011 by film critics and was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2018, the first Iranian cinematographer to receive the honour. He is the author of the book *Lens: In Photography and Cinematography*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, elcinema.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Salesman* (2016), Fi1m 72, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/the-salesman.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Golden Blood* (2023), Cinematography
- *The Four Walls* (2021), Director of Photography
- *Sara and Ayda* (2017), Cinematography
- *The Salesman* (2016), Director of Photography — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-salesman.md)
- *Che* (2014), Director of Photography
- *Hussein Who Said No* (2014), Director of Photography
- *The Last 50 Steps* (2013), Cinematography
- *Kissing the Moon-Like Face* (2012), Director of Photography
- *About Elly* (2009), Director of Photography
- *The Wall* (2008), Director of Photography
- *Persian Carpet* (2007), Director of Photography
- *A Few Days Later...* (2006), Cinematography
- *Fireworks Wednesday* (2006), Director of Photography
- *On a Friday Afternoon* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Under the Skin of the City* (2005), Director of Photography
- *One Night* (2005), Cinematography
- *A Place to Live* (2004), Cinematography
- *Crimson Gold* (2003), Director of Photography
- *The Grey* (2002), Cinematography
- *The Longest Night* (2001), Cinematography
- *Tales of an Island* (2000), Cinematography
- *The Afflicted Generation* (2000), Cinematography
- *The May Lady* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Baran and the Native* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Through the Olive Trees* (1994), as Hossein (uncredited), Director of Photography
- *The Eclipse* (1992), Director of Photography
- *Statue* (1992), Cinematography
- *Nargess* (1992), Director of Photography
- *The Grandfather* (1986), Cinematography
- *Tatooreh* (1984), Cinematography, Director of Photography
- *Spring Behind the Window* (1973), Cinematography
- *How Starry Was the Night*, Cinematography

## Gallery

- ![Hossein Jafarian](https://film.one/media/person/696290/gallery-8b818d1daeeb.jpg) Hossein Jafarian — Siamak Ebrahimi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Hossein_Jafarian.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Popular movie press conference at the 38th edition of the Fajr Film Festival at Mellat cineplex](https://film.one/media/person/696290/gallery-80c85747ae24.jpg) Popular movie press conference at the 38th edition of the Fajr Film Festival at Mellat cineplex — Mohsen Abolghasem, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Popular_movie_press_conference_2020-02-01_02.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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