Ebrahim Noroozi

Ebrahim Noroozi was born in 1980. Alongside his work as a photojournalist, which has earned him three World Press Photo awards, he develops long-term artistic series. Mourners follows two mourning rituals of Muharram, The Narrative of a Dream moves between dream and reality, and The Lake on Its Last Legs records the slow death of Lake Urmia. Silk Road Gallery presented Mourners in 2015 and The Narrative of a Dream in 2018, and showed his work at Paris Photo in 2021 and 2022. His photographs were also exhibited at La Gacilly Photo Festival in 2022, and are held by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.