Hashem Shakeri

Hashem Shakeri is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker based in Tehran. His practice primarily focuses on Iran, Afghanistan, and other countries in the region. He discovered photography during his teenage years and, through years of self-directed learning, experimentation, and sustained practice, gradually developed a personal visual language. In his professional career, Shakeri has placed particular emphasis on long-term, independent projects and visual storytelling.

Working at the intersection of socio-political tensions and environmental crises, Shakeri examines the ways people struggle to endure and to make life possible. Pursuing a contemporary aesthetic within photography and image-led narrative, he challenges dominant accounts by rendering visible those people and places pushed to the margin’s communities living through unwanted forms of exclusion and displacement, searching for life while negotiating the forces around them. A central concern in his work is how the everyday can be activated so that its strangeness surfaces, how the extraordinary might be made visible at the heart of the ordinary.

Shakeri’s work has been widely published in leading international publications and exhibited at major museums and prestigious festivals worldwide. His photographs are part of the permanent collections of prominent institutions.