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Review of a Photographer’s Works Morteza Poorsamadi :

I was born 17 October 1952 in Hamadan.
As a graduate of photography from Television and Cinema High School, I have worked for 25 years in IRIB as a photographer. I am a member of the Iranian Photographers Society. Since retirement, I am working as a freelance photographer in IRIB.
During a 30 years career, I have done documentaries, industrial documentaries, TV series, and movies. The following is a brief listing sorted by year of production:

No.	Film	Director	Job	Production Date	Comment
1	The Tree	Hamid Tamjidi	Photographer	1983	IRIB Channel 2
2	HoorDooragh	Hamid Tamjidi	Photographer	1984	IRIB Channel 2
3	Song of the Streams	Hamid Tamjidi	Photographer	1984	IRIB Channel 2
4	Documentary series , Forests and Prairies	Mohammad-Ali Gorjestani	Photographer	1984-5	IRIB Channel 2
5	Documentary-fiction series, Topography and Surveying	Hamid Tamjidi	Photographer	1985-6	IRIB Channel 2
6	Documentary series, Green Umbrella	Ahmad Zabeti-Jahromi	Photographer	1988	IRIB Channel 2
7	Documentary, Taraz	Farhad Varahram	Photographer	1987-8	O.W.F, Austria
8	Industrial documentary, Water, Roller, Fire	Jafar Ahzan	Photographer	1987	IRIB Channel 1
9	Stone, the Silent Mother	Farshad Fadaiian	Photographer	1990	Ministry of Industry
10	History of an Abandonned Factory	Farshad Fadaiian	Photographer	1990	Ministry of Industry
11	L.A.B.	Farshad Fadaiian	Photographer	1991	Petrochemical Industry
12	Pir-e-Shahriar	Farhad Varahram	Photographer	1991	O.W.F, Austria
13	Chigh	Mohammadreza Aslani	Photographer	1996	Children of Iran series
14	Forward	Nasser Taghvaii	Photographer	1996	Children of Iran series
15	Little Passengers of an Endless Journey	Farshad Fadaiian	Photographer	1996	Children of Iran series
16	Little Taletellers of a Lonely Village	Pirooz Kalantari	Photographer	1995	Children of Iran series
17	Barge	Bahram Azimpoor	Photographer	1996	Children of Iran series
18	Molla-Khadijeh and Her Children	Ebrahim Mokhtari	Photographer	1994	Children of Iran series
19	The Pool of Painting	Farzad Motamen	Photographer	1995	Children of Iran series
20	Kames Puppets	Bahram Azimpoor	Photographer	1995	Children of Iran series
21	In Seyed-Ghelich-Ishan School	Farshad Fadaiian	Photographer	1995	Children of Iran series
22	Hamoon Children	Masood Keramati	Photographer	1996	Children of Iran series
23	Haj-Abbas’s Hamedan	Mohsen Abdolvahab	Photographer	1999	Sima-Film
24	Manteghotteir Series	Mohammadreza Aslani	Photographer	1997	IRIB Channel 1
25	Dust of Banana series	Mohammadreza Aslani	Photographer	1997	IRIB Channel 1
26	Zahra’s Blue Eyes series	Ali Derakhshi	Photographer	1999	IRIB Channel 1
27	Song of the Fog series	Hoseinali Liasetani	Photographer, in cooperation with Azim Javanrooh	2002	IRIB Channel 1
28	Zero Latitude series	Hassan Fat’hi	Photographer	2005	IRIB Channel 1
29	Yoofak	Mahvash Sheikholeslami	Photographer	1998	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
30	Charshoo	Mahvash Sheikholeslami	Photographer	1999	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
31	Telephone	Masood Keramati	Photographer	1999	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
32	Parshang	Mahvash Sheikholeslami	Photographer	2000	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
33	Desert of Mirrors	Omid Bonakdar, Keivan Alimohammadi	Photographer	2000	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
34	Pir-e-Hara	Mahvash Sheikholeslami	Photographer	2001	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
35	Barefoot to Harat	Majid Majidi	Photographer	2001	Majid Majidi
36	Siavash-Abad Landscapes	Omid Bonakdar, Keivan Alimohammadi	Photographer	2001	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
37	Izadbanoo	Soodabeh Mojaveri	Photographer	2002	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
38	Dooz	Mahvash Sheikholeslami	Photographer	2002	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
39	I am Talking with God	Kaveh Bahramimoghaddam	Photographer	2003	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
40	Sistan-Baloochestan Drought	Poorsamadi	Photographer	2001	Baloochestan Governorship
41	Do Me Some Somersaults	Ebrahimi	Photographer	2003	Youth Cinema, and EDFDC
42	Mariam of Hengam Island	Mehrdad Oskooii	Photographer	2003
43	Alavis’ and Malekis’ House	Poorsamadi	Photographer	2004	IRIB Channel 4, from Iranian Homes series
44	Aminis’ Hoseinieh	Poorsamadi	Photographer	2004	IRIB Channel 4, from Iranian Homes series
45	Bibi’s Houses	Poorsamadi	Photographer	2004	IRIB Channel 4, from Iranian Homes series

Pir-e-Hara

Director: Mahvash Sheikholeslami
City: Tehran
Time: 36 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: Beta Cam
Script: M. Sheikholeslami
Photographer: Morteza Poorsamadi
Editor: Kamran Shirdel
Sound: Ghasemi
Producer: M. Sheikholeslami
Date: 2001

Synopsis: Documentary of the life of an old man living in Gheshm Island in a forest called Hara.

Mariam of Hengam Island

Director: Mehrdad Oskooii
City: Tehran
Time: 26 min.
Category: Documentary
Format: DV Cam
Script: M. Oskooii
Photographer: Morteza Poorsamadi
Editor: Varoozh Karim-Masihi
Sound: Akbar Yaghoobi, Mohammadreza Delpak
Date: 2004

Synopsis: In a deserted extended part of Hengam Island (South of Iran) called Ghil village, there live Mariam and Ahmad-Mohammad-Hassan, an old couple.

I am Talking with God