My practice spans photography, film, and curatorial work. I studied Visual Arts at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where I developed a deep interest in how images shape perception. For me, images are not just representations but starting points for layered processes that question memory, visibility, and visual culture. My work moves between documentary research and poetic abstraction, often engaging with collective narratives, memory sites, and personal archives. I work with found materials, soundscapes, and spatial forms, guided by an interest in visual resistance, forgotten histories, and the political potential of the archive. My approach unfolds through three interwoven modes: narrative, observation, and autobiography.
In the narrative mode, I work as a researcher of memory and disappearance—investigating how marginalized histories survive through place, voice, and gesture. Often beginning with fieldwork, I collect oral stories, trace fragile landscapes, and explore overlooked materials. I see the archive as a living space for complexity, rather than a place of fixed truths. I’m drawn to the tension between presence and absence, and how that tension is held in images, silence, or ritual.
In the observational mode, my process becomes more exploratory and intuitive. I’m fascinated by the “poetry of forms”—how visual structures can carry meaning on their own. I create non-representational images, unexpected sequences, and spontaneous compositions that open new ways of seeing. My photobooks often emerge from this space, where logic gives way to rhythm, play, and chance.
The autobiographical mode holds my most personal, long-term work. These projects are not confessional, but contemplative. They reflect on my relationship to place, identity, and memory—quiet inquiries into belonging, movement, and loss.
Collaboration is at the heart of my practice. I view artistic work as relational—shaped by listening, shared authorship, and mutual learning. As co-founder of The Pocket Project, a magazine for mobile photography and decentralized storytelling, I explore new visual formats and modes of collective archiving.
Across all these modes, I seek a balance between the poetic and the political, the intuitive and the investigative. My work invites viewers into layered encounters with memory in its most fragile, transformative forms.
In the narrative mode, I work as a researcher of memory and disappearance—investigating how marginalized histories survive through place, voice, and gesture. Often beginning with fieldwork, I collect oral stories, trace fragile landscapes, and explore overlooked materials. I see the archive as a living space for complexity, rather than a place of fixed truths. I’m drawn to the tension between presence and absence, and how that tension is held in images, silence, or ritual.
In the observational mode, my process becomes more exploratory and intuitive. I’m fascinated by the “poetry of forms”—how visual structures can carry meaning on their own. I create non-representational images, unexpected sequences, and spontaneous compositions that open new ways of seeing. My photobooks often emerge from this space, where logic gives way to rhythm, play, and chance.
The autobiographical mode holds my most personal, long-term work. These projects are not confessional, but contemplative. They reflect on my relationship to place, identity, and memory—quiet inquiries into belonging, movement, and loss.
Collaboration is at the heart of my practice. I view artistic work as relational—shaped by listening, shared authorship, and mutual learning. As co-founder of The Pocket Project, a magazine for mobile photography and decentralized storytelling, I explore new visual formats and modes of collective archiving.
Across all these modes, I seek a balance between the poetic and the political, the intuitive and the investigative. My work invites viewers into layered encounters with memory in its most fragile, transformative forms.
Education
Universität der Künste Berlin, Master of art (with distinction), Institute Art in Context, 2018-2021
Lichtblick School, Seminar with Wolfgang Zurborn, 2017-2018
Neue Schule Für Fotografie Berlin, Seminars with Marc Volk and Eva Bertram, 2015-2016
Magnum Mastercalss with Abbas Attar / Reggio Emilia, 2014
FH-Aachen. University of Applied Sciences, Master of Science, Aeronautical Engineering, 2009 -2013
FH-Aachen. University of Applied Sciences, Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Studies, 2008 - 2009
Exhibitions
The Cycle of Life , Pocket Collective, Villa Kuriosum, European Month of Photography Berlin, 2025
No, I didn’t See Anything, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, 2024
Berlin < > Mexico, IPS, Berlin, 2024
Words on Water, SIS Art Space, Bojnourd, 2024
Words on Water, TAK Berlin, 2024
Words on Water, Hinterland Gallery, Vienna, 2023
The Multiple Room For Doubters, Villa Kuriosum, Berlin, 2023
The Retrurning Hero, 009821 Projects, Tehran, 2023 (Solo)
The Returning Hero, Screening as part of Utopische Intervention in Tempelhofer Landschaften, Cooperationwerkraum, Berlin, 2022
Hidden Bodies, 009821 projects, Tehran, 2022 (Solo)
Listen to the photographs, Pop-up-Raum Hamburg, 2021
Berlin University of the Arts, Graduation Exhibition of the Institute Art in Context, 2021
Portraits, drei Generationen der Iranischstämmiger Künstler-Innen, Rotes Rathaus Galerie, Berlin, 2019
Heimatgefühle, ag Friedhof Museum, Berlin, 2019
Happiness , Kabinett 25, Berlin, 2019
Smart as Photography, Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, 2019
Staged, Constructed, Real, Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin, 2019
Athen Photobook Festival, Selected for “ So Close, Yet So Far”, 2018
Perspektiv III, Neue Schule Für Fotografie, Berlin, 2018
Other, Others, Me, Neue Schule Für Fotografie, Berlin, 2017
Hetrotopy, Privacy Inside Public, Aachen, 2014 (Solo)
Grants/Fellowships/Awards
Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin, 2024
Sonderstipendium Initial in Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2021
Fotopreis des HAUS am KLEISTPARK, Berlin, 2018
PIC Förderpreis 2018, PIC Verband, Germany
Photo-Books:
The Wandering Song, Artist Book, Edition of 50, 2025
Good Old-Fashioned Rythym, Artist Book, Edition of 50, 2020
Mies-en-Abime, Artist Book, Unlimited Edition, 2016 - Ongoing
Lemniscate, Artist Book, Edition of 20, 2018
So Close, Yet So Far, Artist Book, Edition of 10, 2017
Serendipity, Artist Book, Edition of 10, 2016
Professional Experience
Co-Founder and Collective Member, Pocket Collective, since 2024
Research and Editorial Assistant at Bildwelten des Wissens; Art History Yearbook for Image Criticism edited by: Claudia Blümle, Horst Bredekamp, Matthias Bruhn and Katja Müller-Helle, 05.2020 - 09.2021
Universität der Künste Berlin, Master of art (with distinction), Institute Art in Context, 2018-2021
Lichtblick School, Seminar with Wolfgang Zurborn, 2017-2018
Neue Schule Für Fotografie Berlin, Seminars with Marc Volk and Eva Bertram, 2015-2016
Magnum Mastercalss with Abbas Attar / Reggio Emilia, 2014
FH-Aachen. University of Applied Sciences, Master of Science, Aeronautical Engineering, 2009 -2013
FH-Aachen. University of Applied Sciences, Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Studies, 2008 - 2009
Exhibitions
The Cycle of Life , Pocket Collective, Villa Kuriosum, European Month of Photography Berlin, 2025
No, I didn’t See Anything, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, 2024
Berlin < > Mexico, IPS, Berlin, 2024
Words on Water, SIS Art Space, Bojnourd, 2024
Words on Water, TAK Berlin, 2024
Words on Water, Hinterland Gallery, Vienna, 2023
The Multiple Room For Doubters, Villa Kuriosum, Berlin, 2023
The Retrurning Hero, 009821 Projects, Tehran, 2023 (Solo)
The Returning Hero, Screening as part of Utopische Intervention in Tempelhofer Landschaften, Cooperationwerkraum, Berlin, 2022
Hidden Bodies, 009821 projects, Tehran, 2022 (Solo)
Listen to the photographs, Pop-up-Raum Hamburg, 2021
Berlin University of the Arts, Graduation Exhibition of the Institute Art in Context, 2021
Portraits, drei Generationen der Iranischstämmiger Künstler-Innen, Rotes Rathaus Galerie, Berlin, 2019
Heimatgefühle, ag Friedhof Museum, Berlin, 2019
Happiness , Kabinett 25, Berlin, 2019
Smart as Photography, Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, 2019
Staged, Constructed, Real, Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin, 2019
Athen Photobook Festival, Selected for “ So Close, Yet So Far”, 2018
Perspektiv III, Neue Schule Für Fotografie, Berlin, 2018
Other, Others, Me, Neue Schule Für Fotografie, Berlin, 2017
Hetrotopy, Privacy Inside Public, Aachen, 2014 (Solo)
Grants/Fellowships/Awards
Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin, 2024
Sonderstipendium Initial in Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2021
Fotopreis des HAUS am KLEISTPARK, Berlin, 2018
PIC Förderpreis 2018, PIC Verband, Germany
Photo-Books:
The Wandering Song, Artist Book, Edition of 50, 2025
Good Old-Fashioned Rythym, Artist Book, Edition of 50, 2020
Mies-en-Abime, Artist Book, Unlimited Edition, 2016 - Ongoing
Lemniscate, Artist Book, Edition of 20, 2018
So Close, Yet So Far, Artist Book, Edition of 10, 2017
Serendipity, Artist Book, Edition of 10, 2016
Professional Experience
Co-Founder and Collective Member, Pocket Collective, since 2024
Research and Editorial Assistant at Bildwelten des Wissens; Art History Yearbook for Image Criticism edited by: Claudia Blümle, Horst Bredekamp, Matthias Bruhn and Katja Müller-Helle, 05.2020 - 09.2021