Bio

Shirin Jafarizadeh is a photographer from Tehran, Iran, currently pursuing a graduate degree in photography at the University of South Dakota. With a foundation in Cinema from Soore Art University, she has worked as a movie editor and continues to create short experimental films. She began working with analog photography and traditional processes in 2019. Her work explores themes of psychological depth, identity, and alienation, often transforming familiar spaces into abstracted and unsettling forms. Her Vertical Cemetery series, featured in her first solo exhibition in Tehran, reimagines urban landscapes by challenging perceptions of modern architecture and space.

Currently, she works in various mediums such as alternative photographic processes, collage, Screen printing and art installation to further explore ideas of memory, displacement, and the fluid nature of selfhood. Through layering, distortion, and abstraction, she explores the tension between reality and perception, creating visually and emotionally immersive experiences.