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Rahim Altaf ( Ramin ) was born in Tehran, Iran in the late 1960s and started painting at the age of 11. From an early age he showed interest in drawing and painting. He began to work at the famous atelier Dadashi i in Tehran and here he learned drawing portrait. He got The Golden Pencil award in Tehran at age 15 and in Iran at age 16, and as years went by he became more involved in the art scene and made his way to some of the largest studios in Tehran where he worked with oil painting, drawing, sculpting and caricatures. In the path of the 1979 revolution in Iran he chose to leave the country at the end of the 1980s. He made his way to Denmark. He began to study medicine in Denmark and earned  his medical degree from the University of Aarhus in Denmark. �Today he works as physician/oncologist in University Hospital in Oslo.