[2] Jalali graduated with a degree in Economics from Melli University in Tehran, then started his career as a photographer with Tamasha Magazine in 1972.

His last work was a photo series called "Image of Imaginations", which took three years (2003– 2006) for him to complete.

Jalali was given an homage for his forty-year career in photography by the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona with a solo exhibition curated by Catherine David from September to December 2007 and the publication of a monograph.

He was a contributor to the exhibition in the British Museum, London, Word into Art : Artists of the Modern Middle East in 2006.

[4] Until the end of his life, Jalali was a member of the editorial board for Aksnameh, a bi-monthly journal of photography in Tehran.