Inspired by Bahman Jalali, Peyman Hooshmanzadeh, Nan Goldin, and Sebastiao Salgado, Monzavi seeks out untold stories. “A constant examination of what is not readily apparent in Iran has provided a rich and, oftentimes, surprising basis for my artistic practice,” Monzavi has said. In her documentary work, Monzavi has confronted controversial subjects, including drug addicts, the homeless, and a transgender woman.
Tahmineh Monzavi was born in 1988 in Tehran, Iran. Earning a BA in photography from the department of art and architecture at Islamic Azad University Central Tehran Branch, Monzavihas been actively making documentary photographs since 2007 and documentary films since 2009.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
Side by Side Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2013
Side by Side Gallery, Berlin, Germany
A View of Documentary Photography in Iran, 1987-2013, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012
Giorgi Leonidze State Museum of Literature, Tbilisi, Georgia
2011
National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010
A Selection of Young, Talented Iranian Photographers, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Tehran Documented: Selection of Documentary Photographs from the Last 40 Years, Arran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland