Hamed Tabein is documentary and street photographer from Toronto.
Hamed Tabein was born in Iran in 1976. Tabein has been involved in the learning and teaching of photography for the past fifteen years. He graduated in architecture, and has been involved in numerous arts and photography projects, including workshops, and group as well as individual exhibitions, participating as artist, instructor and executive manager of photo festivals. These include over 35 exhibitions in three continents and collaboration with photography associations as a photography instructor.
In 2011, Tabein’s photos of the Island of Hormoz located within the Persian Gulf received recognition from the Heidelberg Library in Germany and were subsequently displayed in a group exhibition in Germany. To date, three of his photos have been published on the official website of the National Geographic. These include one photo from the Afghanistan photography project. In 2016, Tabein, was invited by the Montreal House of Photography to take part in the “Residency project”, a project involving social portraits, the exhibition for which will be held in Montreal in February 2017, followed by other exhibitions in other major cities throughout Canada.
Tabein’s collection of photographs on “the Afghan Smile” will also be put on display at the Festival Acces Asie in May, 2017.