Maryam Takhtkeshian

Maryam Takhtkeshian was born in Tehran in 1984 and studied photography at the Azad University of Tehran. She has worked as a cinema still photographer since 2005 and has twice won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Photo at the Fajr Film Festival, at its 35th and 38th editions. She also works as a documentary photographer for newspapers and magazines in Iran and has been a member of the Iranian Society of Still Photographers (Khane Cinema) since 2009. Her series Pandora (2020) turns the electric switch boxes that dot Tehran’s streets into a portrait of the city. Her work has been shown at the Rencontres d’Arles in Iran, Année 38 (2017), at CerModern in Ankara, and in two solo exhibitions at Silk Road Gallery.