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Syd Fini

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Syd Fini

Syd Fini lives in Brooklyn with his wife, who is a puppet-maker and painter. He was born in Iran during the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war and spent most of his time indoors, drawing pictures from his favorite movies and animations. That sense of visual storytelling led him to start his career as a storyboard artist for feature films at the age of eighteen....

He then continued directing animations and making graphic novels. He works both digitally and in traditional paper and ink. He draws inspiration from dark and magical realism in literature; his visual style is moody, and the scope of his compositions is cinematic and grand. He plays his Tanbur instrument after his long sessions of drawing.

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Articles by Syd Fini

A pen-and-ink drawing of pedestrians looking downcast and concerned. A woman holding an image of...
Image © Syd Fini. The image depicts a video of Leila Mahdavi, walking around and showing people a photo of her son. Siavash Mahmoudi was sixteen when he was killed by the regime’s bullets on September 21, 2022, during the protests.
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