Maryam Firuzi

Maryam Firuzi was born in 1986 in Shiraz and lives and works in Tehran. She holds a BA in screenwriting and an MA in film studies from the Art University of Tehran, and works across photography and cinema. Her short films have been screened at festivals in Iran and abroad, and The Provisional Death of Bees won Best Short Film at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Cannes. Her staged photographic series, such as Reading for Tehran Streets, combine storytelling, poetry and social allusion. She received the Peace Medal of the Global Peace Photo Award in 2018 and 2022, the International Women in Photo Association (IWPA) Award in 2022, and was named Professional People Photographer of the Year at the International Photography Awards in 2024. Her work has been shown at Paris Photo in 2021 and 2022, at La Gacilly Photo Festival in 2022, and in touring IWPA exhibitions in cities including Beirut, Amman, Paris, Singapore and Marseille.