"My art is a personal investigation across cultural bounds into the underlying human themes and common spiritual threads found in religious, mythological, and sexual expression."
-Drew Tal
"I grew up in the New Jersey suburbs of New York City, a daughter of Iranian immigrants. Through my art, I selectively choose the aspects of each culture I want to inherit, on my own terms. The negotiation of cultures in my work reflects the first-generation American experience. The Persian-Islami
Imbedded, life-time photographer. Re-mastering older work, shooting new series. Continual, noirish documentation of Los Angeles, my hometown. Remembers wet darkrooms....