Babak Haghi

Babak Haghi (b. 1982, Tabriz, Iran) is an Iranian visual artist working across staged photography, portraiture, and video. He began his professional career in theatre photography in 2012. His early engagement with theatre strongly shaped the performative and constructed nature of his later work. Haghi’s practice centers on the body as a site of identity, vulnerability, and fluid femininity. Through carefully staged environments, he explores the expressive potential of body language as a non-verbal dialect—one that transcends gendered boundaries and reveals hidden dimensions of desire and selfhood.

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Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions:
2024, Alternative Photography festival, Named “ZRNO”, Art academy, Sulian Gallery, Skopje,
Macedonia
2024, Alternative Prints Exhibition, Named “We could all be a Simorgh”, Yafteh Art Gallery, Tehran,
Iran
2023, Alternative Prints Exhibition, Named “Barren”, Maryam Art Gallery, Kashan, Iran
2021, Photography Exhibition, Named “The Poetic Of Water”, A Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020, Online Photography Exhibition, Named “Behind The Masculinity”, The Little Black Art Gallery,
London, UK
2019, Photography Exhibition, Named “Between Moment and Soil”, Mojdeh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018, Photography Exhibition, Named “Black Box”, Aban Art Gallery, Shiraz, Iran
2017, Photography Exhibition, Named “The Twelfth Strike”, Mojdeh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016, Photography Exhibition, Named “Those Bright Days”, Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015, Photography Exhibition, Named “Walk-On Mirrors”, Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014, Theater Photography Exhibition, Sheila Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Art Fair:
2023, Positions Berlin Art Fair, Yafteh art gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020, India Art Fair, Italian Embassy Cultural Center gallery, Delhi, India
Group Exhibitions:
2025, Photography exhibition, Named “Regard Sur L’Iran” by Evidences Photo, Le Consulat, Paris,
France
2024, International alternative photography festival, Named “Analog Mania”, Timisoara, Romania
2024, Visual art group exhibition, Named “Barren”, Mojdeh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2023, Photography group exhibition, Working Dog Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2023, Contemporary art group exhibition, Named “One Story Is Not Enough”, Habitat Art Center, Delhi,
India
2023, Contemporary art group exhibition, Named “Recovered”, Yafteh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2022, Contemporary art group exhibition, Named “Techne Disruptors”, High Line Nine , New York,
USA
2022, Contemporary art group exhibition, Named “Techne Disruptors”, Habitat Art Center, Delhi, India
2022, Online Photography Exhibition, Named “Leak”, Arthibition Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2021, Photography Exhibition, Named “I Am What I See”, Mojdeh Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020, Online Visual Art Exhibition, Named “Surface Online Edition”, ARTBUZZ India, India, Delhi
2020, International Art Festival, Named “Arada”, Ada Sanat Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2020, Manual Printing Exhibition, Named “Amnesia & Hypermnesia”, Silk Road Art Gallery, Tehran,
Iran
2020, Photography Online Exhibition, Named “Quarantine”, Silk Road Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2020, Visual Art Online Exhibition, Named “Quarantine”, Artbuzzindia, Delhi, India
2019, Photography Exhibition, Named “A Few Days in Between”, Arta Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2019, Photography Exhibition, Named “From Someone Else’s Frame”, Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019, Photography Exhibition, Named “A Few Days in Between”, Nabshi Center Art Gallery, Tehran,
Iran
2019, Photography Exhibition, Named “Dame”, Negah Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018, Photography Exhibition, Named “228”, Silk Road Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018, Visual Art Exhibition, Named “Amordad”, Afrand Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017, “Mercipoesi” International festival, Gutenberg, Sweden
2017, Conceptual Art Exhibition, Named “Hashtag”, Dena Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017, Photography Exhibition, Named “Cocoon”, Negah Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016, Visual Art Exhibition, Named “Munch’s purple scream”, Dena Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016, 10 Days with Iranian Photographers, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
2016, Visual Art Exhibition, 4rd Grand Festival of Art for Peace, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
2016, Visual Art Exhibition, Named “Decade”, Mehrva Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016, Theater Photography Exhibition, Named "Theaterography", Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
2016, 13th Image Of The Year’s Festival, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
2015, Photography Exhibition, Named "Younger than Life", Shirin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015, Photography Exhibition, Named "The End", Mehrva Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2015, Photography Exhibition, Named "Vahleh", Qasr Museum, Tehran, Iran
2015, Photography Exhibition, Named "Roozgard", Sheila Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Iran
2015, 12th Image Of The Year’s Festival, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran
2015, Theater Photography Exhibition, 33th Fadjr International Theater Festival, Iranian Artists Forum,
Tehran, Iran
2015, Visual Art Exhibition, 3rd Grand Festival of Art for Peace, Niavaran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014, Photography Exhibition and end of the year auction, No.6 Art Gallery, 2014, Tehran, Iran
2013, Photographs of Institute of Professional Photography appointees in Tehran Photo House
Museum, Iran
Published:
1- THE EYE OF PHOTOGRAPHY Online Magazine (Paris): https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/le
consulat-evidences-la-compagnie-des-photographes-regard-sur-liran/
2- RFI )Radio France International( website: https://www.rfi.fr/fr/culture/20250619-regards-sur-l-iran-l
art-comme-acte-de-r%C3%A9sistance?utm_slink=rfi.my%2FBlzx
3- “The Eye Of Photography” magazine: https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/best-of-2021-babak-haghi
dv/
4- “Kaltblut” magazine: https://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/latification-by-babak-haghi/
5- “ZH” magazine: https://zhmagazine.com/babak-haghi/
6- “ART India” magazine: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci94v2cuRR8/
7- “Artamour”: https://www.artamour.in/post/techn%C3%A9-disruptors-a-preview
Memberships:
A member of Iranian national photographer's society
A member of Iranian Association Of Theater Photographers