Nazak, “Persian Princess” was born to Hamid Reza Pahlavi, one of the Crown Princes of Iran. Her education began in Switzerland at “Monte Rosa” academy, but her professional career in photography began in Santa Barbara, California at the “Brooks Institute of Photography”, where she embarked on a life long journey into photography.
Her passion for modern art led to a schism between Nazak and her family that led her to Brazil with the help of a forged passport. In Brazil, under the alias Nazak Zartosht, she published "Naked Strange" in the Brazilian Magazine "Fotoptica." Upon learning of the death of her brother Bezhad, Nazak left for France. Taking refuge under the auspice of the last Iranian Prime Minister before revolution - Shapour Baktiar, she managed to continue her career in Photography.
 Influence from French photographers like Sieff Jean-Wolf, Jean-Francoise Jonvelle "French To coil", Jacques Bergaud the "Sade" of the studios Pinup, as that of the photojournalist Chico Nascimento of "Cuff" (the Brazilian Paris-Match), inspired her to put together a series entitled “Women Under the skirt." Her brilliant career ended in 1987 at the age of twenty-nine, when she fell to mysterious causes. It was an irony of life that brings Princess Leila to the picture. She learned about her cousin Nazak and her untimely death in mid nineties. Being touch by her life story and death, the kind Leila visited Nazak's grave in Paris. She was outraged by unmarked grave and bought a gravestone to be placed there. Little did Princess Leila know that in not a distance future she also would be laid in a grave young and unfulfilled.
 
 Nazak's life and brilliant carrier lends her a place in the history of the Iranian imigrant women.
“The eye of Nazak, Iranian photographer, Persian Princess, is the reflection of recent Iranian immigrant history"
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