Roqe - Episode 125 - "Elizabeth Taylor, Pulp Fiction, and Firooz" - Firooz Zahedi

Roqe 125 - An ebullient episode including a feature interview with legendary Iranian-American photographer, Firooz Zahedi. Firooz joins Jian from Los Angeles to tell the story of how he went from an Iranian kid born in Tehran in 1949, to a protege of pop art luminary Andy Warhol by the mid-1970s in the USA, and then the personal photographer and close friend of Elizabeth Taylor. Firooz recounts his trip to Iran with Taylor, his eye for photography, his more recent work with everyone from Barbra Streisand to Oprah Winfrey to Angelina Jolie, and his art direction and photography for the famous poster for Pulp Fiction. Plus the Roqe Team convenes to discuss Persian phone greetings, and the imminent Euro 2021 Final. 0:00 Start 11:15 Firooz Zahedi 1:07:00 Roqe Team post interview talk http://roqemedia.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ROQEMEDIA/ https://www.instagram.com/roqemedia/ https://twitter.com/RoqeMedia This episode is brought to you with the generous support of https://www.myterms.ca/ #roqe #RoqeMedia #JianGhomeshi #artist #photographer #photo #persianphotographer #oldhollywood #hollywood #tehran #toronto #losangeles #celebrityphotographer #elizabethtaylor #pulpfiction #film #cinema #music #musician #podcast