NIMA TARADJI

Editorial & Documentary Photography

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By Nima Taradji Photography — Finnaly got a bit of time to update my Environmental Portrait page with some of my latest work.         Nima Taradji Editorial and Documentary Photography, Environmental           Portaits by Nima Taradji         

By Nima Taradji Photography — I recently got rid of all my  old film era equipment which allowed me to get enough money to pay for a new flash - the ProFoto A1. But, I still have the Minolta flashmeter in my  bag!         Hooked on the Classics: Vintage Gear Photographers Can't Part With           We spoke with several photographers to learn about the...

By Nima Taradji Photography — Web version here: https://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/amerique-nord/barack-obama-face-a-la-fronde-des-noirs-de-chicago_2033079.html#c7havTcYxQt0BKvb.01

By Nima Taradji Photography — In the spring of 2018, I along with writer Alan Cassidy on assignment for Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger , entered Sidney High School, expecting to meet a bunch of Yosemite Sam looking, gun-slinging, trigger-happy yahoos intent on shooting anything that moves.  Much to my surprise, I met a group of people, whose logical and methodical approach to gun violence made me, perhaps not a...

By Nima Taradji Photography — Nima Taradji Editorial and Documentary Photography, Lost Paradise "This people has attained riches without usury, and all the honours that can be awarded to slavery without intrigue. But they have long occupied,...

By Nima Taradji Photography — Nima Taradji Editorial and Documentary Photography, Crucified Via Crucis or The Living Stations of the Cross is the re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion. It has taken place for the past four decades in the...

By Nima Taradji Photography — March 24, 2018- March For Our Lives, Chicago, Illinois.

By Nima Taradji Photography — Crate & Barrel’s CEO, Neela Montgomery, photographed on location for The Wall Street Journal. Why Crate and Barrel’s CEO Isn’t Worried About Amazon Three years ago, Crate and Barrel had little social-media presence, but it now has more than one million Instagram followers and produces more digital content than photographs.

By Nima Taradji Photography — January 20, 2018 - Chicago, Illinois, United States: An estimated crowd in excess of 300,000 Chicagoans marched in downtown Chicago commemorating the first anniversary of the Women's March. The organizers who have dubbed this year's march the March to the Polls hope to galvanize women to vote for progressive causes.  https://www.instagram.com/p/BeL71aonbFm/

By Nima Taradji Photography — January 7, 2018- New Orleans, LA - Member of the Perfect Gentlemen Social & Pleasure Club, Rapper T. Lyons, rests at a stop along the Second Line route. January 7th marked the start of the Parade Season which lead to the Mardi Gras Parade on February 13, 2018. Second line is a quintessential New Orleans tradition. It is a brass band parade where the main section is comprised of the...

By Nima Taradji Photography — Adeus às armas Professor Benjamin Lessing diz que Estado e autoridades policiais deveriam deixar claro que certo nível de narcotráfico pode ser tolerado, mas sem violência

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By Nima Taradji Photography — I am counting the days, hours, minutes and seconds until my flight to New York and then the bus ride to attend the Eddie Adams Workshop... XXX!!!

By Nima Taradji Photography — Moments before the Totality is reached. A crowed of about 14,000 gathered in the Saluki Stadium at the Southern Illinois University Campus in Carbondale, Illinois to view the Solar Eclipse. Carbondale is in the total solar eclipse path that stretched across the entire United States, reaching its point of greatest duration a few miles south of the City. This region in southern Illinois is...

By Nima Taradji Photography — A man offers for sale a framed Art Print entitled 'Freedom Riders' by artist Kolongi Brathwaite which depicts leaders including President Barack Obama and the First Lady, Michelle Obama, Tupac Shakur, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Coretta King, Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz, Huey Newton, Nelson Mandella, Bob Marley and Muhammad Ali riding horses together, at the Bud Billiken...

By Nima Taradji Photography — Becaboo M. Ornelas and two children do promotional work for The Brothers Car Club of Elgin, Illinois during the Slow & Low: Chicago Lowrider Festival . August 6, 2017. Lowrider culture began in the desert somewhere. Whether it started in the actual desert shared by El Paso, Texas and New Mexico, or whether it emerged from the socioeconomic desert along Whittier Boulevard, that’s still...

By Nima Taradji Photography — I was more interested in the folks going to the concert than the concert itself... Some images taken around the Wrigley Field (home of the Cubs) where the Grateful Dead played on July 1, 2017.

By Nima Taradji Photography — I was honored to be interviewed by PRI's Global Nation about the work I am doing with Lucha Libre - the Mexican style of wrestling - which I have been working on since last year. The matches are quite something to see--if you ever get an opportunity to attend one (which happens every Sunday in Villa Park) you should. You will not regret it! Thanks to Angilee Shah and Luis Marentes for...

By Nima Taradji Photography — Ryan Ningealook, 4, looks on while his two brothers sleep on the floor in the only room in their small home in Shishmaref, Alaska. http://ift.tt/2rqonfl Shishmaref is a remote village of about 600 people located 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle and it sits atop rapidly melting permafrost because of climate change. As the water temperatures have increased the time span the Chukchi Sea...

By Nima Taradji Photography — A lone passenger is dropped off at St. Michael, Alaska airport-One of the few stops before arriving to Shishmaref, Alaska. Shishmaref is a remote village of about 600 people located 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle and it sits atop rapidly melting permafrost because of climate change. As the water temperatures have increased the time span the Chukchi Sea stays frozen is getting shorter...

By Nima Taradji Photography — Andrew Ningealook, 26 years old and a life long resident of Shishmaref, breaks the ice before laying his fishing net under the ice. Shishmaref, Alaska-2015 Shishmaref is a remote village of about 600 people located 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle and it sits atop rapidly melting permafrost because of climate change. As the water temperatures have increased the time span the Chukchi Sea...

By Nima Taradji Photography — An outtake from series on Cuba: Kids playing a friendly but fierce match of soccer. From "Cuba's In Motion" series-2016 Havana, Cuba. See the series here.

By Nima Taradji Photography — Outtake from the project: My Fair Lady: Red Hot Annie. See the full project here: http://ift.tt/2qkqLAu @redhotannie @vaudezilla #burlesque #chicago #vaudeville #theatre http://ift.tt/2qQaF55

By Nima Taradji Photography — Outtake from the project: My Fair Lady: Red Hot Annie. See the full project here: http://ift.tt/2qkqLAu @redhotannie @vaudezilla #burlesque #chicago #vaudeville #theatre http://ift.tt/2qQaF55

By Nima Taradji Photography — At the Rockit Barbershop. Pilsen neighborhood, Chicago, IL-2017 -  https://www.instagram.com/p/BUHi7NPDuTO/ #pilsen#pilsenchicago#barbershop#chicago#illinois#latino

By Nima Taradji Photography — Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City, Mexico - 2017 #ladyofguadalupe #senioradeguadalupe #mexicocity #ciudaddemexico #christianity #religion #church

By Nima Taradji Photography — Marty Ellbank who ran the Boston Marathon in 1996 owns Marty's barbershop in Clarksdale, MS. May 2017 - Clarksdale, MS. #clarksdale #clarksdalems #barbershop #mississippi #southernexposure (view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2qYBsKy )

By Nima Taradji Photography — Kids playing basketball and Sherwood Park, Chicago, IL - 2016

By Nima Taradji Photography — Rodolfo Flores portrays Jesus and carries a cross during the 40th annual Via Crucis in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. #viacrucis #goodfriday #stationsofthecross #pilsenchicago #pilsen #providenceofgod

By Nima Taradji Photography — At the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe), Mexico City, Mexico - 2017