Parisa Taghizadeh grew up in London. She completed an honors bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and went on to work in film and television. She worked as a publicity stills photographer for arts organizations such as Artangel and the Serpentine Gallery and on numerous films and documentaries including Michael Winterbottom’s award winning film, IN THIS WORLD. Parisa’s work deals with issues of personal and cultural identity, as in MAKE-UP, IRAN; a long term project dealing with women living in Iran and their relationship to make-up and its rituals. She is also working on MOTHER, a series of portraits of mothers without their children. Parisa moved to California in 2004 and exhibited widely in galleries such as the San Francisco Arts Commission and more recently at UCLA’s Fowler Museum in Los Angeles. In 2010, she moved to Auckland, New Zealand where she is currently living.