I was born in Taybad, a border town in northeastern Iran, where the movement of people, languages, cultures, and stories is woven into everyday life. In such a landscape, a border is more than a political line; it is a space where narratives intersect, transform, and continue to evolve.
Much of my work emerges from this experience.
Through photography, filmmaking, and writing, I am drawn to places, people, and stories that exist outside dominant centers of attention. Rather than focusing on major events, I am interested in how memory, history, and lived experience persist within everyday life. Many of my projects engage with spaces transforming, narratives at risk of disappearance, and voices that rarely enter dominant narratives.
My background in film editing and literary editing has strongly influenced this approach. Despite belonging to different disciplines, both practices rely on selection, omission, rearrangement, and reconstruction. As a result, I see images and texts as parallel structures through which meaning is constructed, in which significance emerges from relationships rather than from isolated elements.
Throughout my work, I have repeatedly returned to the relationship between center and periphery. In Cannibals Island, I explored perceptions of Tehran through the voices of Mashhad residents. In What Do You Think?, I examined the pursuit of becoming a writer not as a profession but as a way of living. Just Like Ancient Giants, I moved beyond biography to explore the origins of a poet’s imaginative world.
For me, time is not a linear progression. The past remains embedded within places, stories, and memories, continually reinterpreted and reshaped. Every image becomes an act of editing, every narrative an act of rewriting, and every memory a reconstruction of what can never be fully recovered.