Solmaz Daryani is an Iranian photographer and photojournalist. Her work is particularly known for exploring the themes of Climate security, climate change, water crisis, human identity and environment. Her projects investigate the diversity of lifestyles and relationship between people and their environment through personal narratives by identifying locations, characters and scenes

Her work has been internationally published in National Geography, Foreign Policy Magazine, Polka Magazine, L'OBS Magazine, Le Monde Magazine and other publications.

In 2017 she received the Magnum Foundation Grant and In 2015, she received the IdeasTap and Magnum Photos Grant for her project "The Eyes of Earth", death and revival of Iran's Lake Urmia once the second-largest salt lake in the world.