Firooz Zahedi

Firooz Zahedi
Born	Firooz Zahedi 1949 (age 67–68) Tehran, Iran
Nationality	American
Occupation	Photographer
Spouse(s)	Beth Rudin DeWoody
Children	Darian Zahedi

Firooz Zahedi (born 1949) is an American photographer of Iranian descent.

Firooz Zahedi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1949. His family moved to England where he received his secondary education. In 1969 he came to the US to attend Georgetown University in Washington DC. He graduated with a degree in Foreign Service in 1973.

After graduation, Zahedi served briefly as a diplomat for the former government of Iran but resigned to go to the Corcoran School of Art from which he received a degree in visual communication in 1976.

While at art school he began photographing for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine and served as its Washington DC correspondent.

In May 1976 he met and became friends with Elizabeth Taylor and soon after they traveled together to Iran. The photographs from that trip, which included the actress dressed in local tribal costumes, alongside portraits he took of her on the set of A little Night Music in Vienna became the subject of the cover story of Andy Warhol's Interview magazine in October 1976.

In 1978 he accompanied Elizabeth Taylor to Hollywood as her personal photographer on the set of the film Return Engagement.

He settled in Los Angeles to pursue his photographic career. He subsequently moved to Los Angeles, and started his professional career as a photographer.

In 1988 he was assigned by Vanity Fair to shoot for the magazine. Soon after he was placed under contract by that publication. His editorial work has appeared internationally on the covers of such magazines as Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, Town & Country, Glamour, In Style, Time, Architectural Digest and Entertainment Weekly.

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