Issa the wrestler

Mohammad Reza Hussaini (Yemak) is a photographer born in Afghanistan, probably in 1976. He was forced by the war in Afghanistan to flee to Iran, where he worked as a labor, until 2001. He grew up in Mashad city in Iran and studied there. He never thought he could become a director or a photographer, however, inspired by Jules Verne or Jack London, he wanted to become an author since his childhood. The turning point of his life was his meeting with the famous photojournalist Reza Deghati, in 2002, who permit him to participate in training in photography at the photography-training center (later called AINA, Afghan Media and Culture Center) in Kabul, for two years. Then in 2006 and 2007 he directed two films as a trainee in Ateliers Varan's workshops in Kabul. His second film "Bulbul, the city bird" was selected in many festivals as DokLeipzig, DocLisboa or the 3 Continents film festival in Nantes. Nowadays, he is a writer, a film critic and hold seminars and workshop in photography and film critics for Third Eye productions, amateur photographers or filmmakers. He is also a founding member of the photography department of the faculty of Fine Arts of Kabul University