she (born 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian documentary photographer and Filmmaker with bachelor degree in photography from Azad art & Architecture University of Tehran.
Her main topics of interest are social conlicts and the young generation of Iran. Since 2006 when she started using the media of photography, she has focused on "social contradictions". In her works, she has been inding subjects that are taking place in secrecy and are unofficial in Tehran. hese underground social layers are hidden from the eyes of the public and not everyone gets to see. She had the urge to show deeper, hidden currents within the Iranian society, culture and art. Her works have been published by many international art magazines and books such as ”Vogue”, "Internazionale", "British journal of photography", "Leigaro", "l'oeil de la photographie", "Alternatives History", "La photographie Iranienne published by LOCO", "Iran unedited history 1960-2014 published by Muse D'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris”. Her photographs have also been demonstrated in some museums around the world such as "Modern Art Museum of Paris”, "Literature Museum of Giorgia" and “Maxxi museum of Roma”. Tahmineh Monzavi is working on a long interval project of photo stories about young generation and women of Iran in various cities. Monzavi is a promising young artist whose work reveals taboos and stereotypes in Iran and Afghanistan through the images of younger women and marginalized people in a rather explicit way.
