Khashayar Javanmardi

Khashayar Javanmardi is an Iranian photographer and artist based in Lausanne. He started as a photographer at 19 with Jaam Photo Agency, studied architecture at Guilan University of Art and Architecture (2010–2013) and photojournalism at the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX, 2019–2021), and is now taking an MA at HGK Basel. His long-term project on the Caspian Sea, published as a book by Loose Joints in 2024 under the title Caspian: A Southern Reflection, won first prize at Photoforum and second prize in the PhMuseum Grant in 2024, and first prize at the Verzasca Photo Festival and a special jury mention at the Prix Elysée in 2023. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and through Reuters. In 2025 he had his first solo museum show, at Foam in the Netherlands, and he has also shown at the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden, at the Swiss Design Awards, where he was a finalist, and with Silk Road Gallery in Tehran (2019) and at Paris Photo (2023). Since 2026 he has been creative director of CultureLink in Switzerland, and he is an ambassador for the NGO Save The Caspian Sea.