Samira Alikhanzadeh was born in 1967, She finished her MA in painting in 1998. She currently lives and works in Iran. She is fascinated by the idea of identity and reality. she finds inspiration from old photographs, mostly family photos from the 1940s and 1950s. In her more recent work, she uses digital printing the photographs, where before she mostly used the photos as collages.- In her latest body of work, the artist examines the fading quality of memory and visualizes her theme metaphorically by creating fading imagery.-(selectionsarts.com)www.samiraalikhanzadeh.com