Nooshin Shafiee

Shahreza (Iran),b. 1990

Nooshin Shafiee earned her BA in Photography and her MA in Photography from the University of Tehran. Her work focuses on Tehran, a city where the past and present constantly intertwine, creating an atmosphere of tension and quiet endurance.

Shafiee's approach to photography is deeply intuitive. She is sensitive to the atmosphere and seeks subtle depth in everyday moments. Utilizing both digital and analog photography, she often experiments with layering and gentle distortions to convey a sense of time unfolding within a single frame. Her process involves extended periods of observation, allowing her to fully immerse herself in a space before capturing its essence.

Her work has been exhibited in various group and solo shows, both in Iran and internationally. She has collaborated with independent art spaces and galleries, curating and participating in projects that explore photography's capacity to convey personal and collective histories.

Nooshin Shafiee currently lives and works in Tehran. in which the tracks enter into a dialogue with Shafiee’s photographs.

Shayan Sajadian

Shiraz (Iran),b. 1994

Shayan Sajadian (b. 1994, Shiraz, Iran) studied architecture at the University of Art and Architecture of Tehran. While studying he came accross photograyphy as the medium that allowed him to show the unseen reality around him. Shayan Sajadian uses photography to spotlight and narrate stories about Iranian marginalized communities. The experience of life – getting to know others and their lifestyles through photography – is what intrigues him in paying attention to social issues, and social outcasts in particular. His work has been exhibited in Iran as part of group exhibitions by Dastan and Dastan's Basement galleries in Tehran.