I’m an Iranian artist, based in Rome since 2010, where I moved just after college in Tehran for studying graphic design in fine art academy of Rome.
I used to be a documentary photographer but since 2014 I started to tell stories with drawings, a more original visual language, without any dependence of technology.
Being born and raised in Iran and moving to Europe in age of 18, the main inspiration for me is the difference between the cultures and countries so I’m constantly in travel meetings people of different places in the world and trying to find out the main difference between them and the rest of the world, then I try to do drawings about them, documentary drawings...

Till now I did drawings in more than 20 countries with which I had several exhibitions around the world...

I do also a series of prints from my works, which are in sale mainly in the museum shops in Europe :)

You can have a look at my website www.salehkazemi.com

Or my Instagram page:
www.instagram.com/saleh.kazemi/

I love to learn about the languages as well, the way of saying impressions and body languages of different cultures.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Having the chance of knowing the local people

Interests

Traveling and knowing different cultures, drawing urban scenes, trying to meet the local artists and galleries

• arts
• photography
• traveling
• drawing
• piano

Music, Movies, and Books

Classical and electronic music

Auto-biography Books

20th century’s movies

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Flying in a balloon on top of Maya pyramids in Mexico!

Teach, Learn, Share

Persian cooking, Some Italian pasta sauces, analogical photography, drawing a glass of water :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook, I can tell you the stories behind my drawings, I can suggest you some non famous but great music bands, As a present I will bring you some of my prints, maybe I can do an analogical bw portrait and send it to you once I print it :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Iran, Italy, Swaziland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates