Hamid Djodeiri Khodashenas was born in 1963 in Tehran, Iran. He is lawyer and an active eclipse chaser since 1999. His deep passion to observing eclipses of the sun led him to found the first Iranian eclipse chasers group (www.shadow-chasers.net) called Sayeh (shadow in Farsi), where would be a place to promote interest in solar eclipse observation among Iranian amateur astronomers also other astronomical activities. He has observed 1999 totality from remote Lake of Gahar in Iran (9 hours film) and 2001 totality from Zimbabwe (6 hours film), 2003 totality from Antarctica (70 hours film) and 2005 totality from the Pacific Ocean (36 hours film) and he has paid to produce documentaries in all his eclipse trips without any governmental support.

Being in all these trips and experiencing the nature of different points of the world made him a great fan of photography of the nature. Also his photos have been exposed in several photo exhibitions in Iran. He has taken over 8000 solar eclipse and nature photos in his expeditions to Antarctica and Pacific Ocean. 

Doing these activities all he has tried to bring science and art together in order to display them more interesting.

Hamid Djodeiri Khodashenas (www.MrEclipse.ir) -

Eclipse chaser and director of Sayeh research group (www.shadow-chasers.net)

Email: hamid@shadow-chasers.net