Rana Javadi (b.1953;[1] Persian: رعنا جوادی) is an Iranian photographer and museum founder.
Self-taught Iranian photographer, Rana Javadi began working as the Director of Photo and Pictorial Studies at the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran in 1989.
[3] Her work includes the series "When You Were Dying", in which she takes old studio photographs from Iran and uses them as the basis for photocollages involving fabrics, flowers, and other items.
[4] She has also been active as a documentary photographer, chronicling the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
[5] One work by Javadi, an untitled 1978 photograph from the series "Days of Blood, Days of Fire", is currently in the collection of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.