The greatest characteristic of a portrait photographer is his initiation, his compassion, his ability to judge a person, his ability to get along with all kinds of people, from a poet, a mathematician or a politician.  His ability to have sympathy for each person and to understand the person he is photographing, to show tact and understanding of the problem the person faces, being before a camera.  His photographs speak a fluent language of brevity, distant sweetness which invites investigation. For every photographer there exists a framework according to which he attempts to conduct his subjects. For Fakhreddin that framework is easiness.  His master of photographic techniques, in the most complete sense, is a natural teacher for all those who follow his way. Thousands of monumental photographs are the result of 50 years of his experience.   We chose to open this essay with a few words on Fakhreddin, not because our intention was to describe him as a person, but because our observation of his photographs led us to choose his approach. Fakhreddin was born in 1932 and grew up in an artist family. As well as photography, he also started painting from his childhood. In comparison between painting and photography, Fakhreddin says :
" Painting is a creation of a distorted image of reality but photography is a selection of reality. " .
Most of his works have been dedicated to portrait and landscape photography. He completed his academic education at San Francisco Art Academy in photography and painting. He spent some years in Koln, working with Sharkovsky, a well known portrait photographer in Germany.   At present he spends part of his time teaching in the Iranian art universities and institutes, holding photographic exhibitions. He is known as a leader in the portrait photography in Iran. This collection of landscape photos is a small selection amongst the many photographs taken over the past years.