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, studying visual arts under the mentorship of Hafez Miraftabi. 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. He has held eight solo exhibitions in Iran and London and has participated in over sixty group exhibitions internationally. His work was presented at India Art Fair 2020, Position Berlin Art Fair 2023 and, most recently, in a group exhibition in Paris with Evidences (2025). Haghi has photographed more than 150 theatre productions in Iran and currently experiments with manual printing techniques in his studio practice.

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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, Iran2015, Photography Exhibition, Named “Walk-On Mirrors”, Atbin Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran2014, 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, Iran2020, 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, Iran2016, Theater Photography Exhibition, Named "Theaterography", Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran2016, 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, IranIran 2015, 12th Image Of The Year’s Festival, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran2015, Theater Photography Exhibition, 33th Fadjr International Theater Festival, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran2015, Visual Art Exhibition, 3rd Grand Festival of Art for Peace, Niavaran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran2014, Photography Exhibition and end of the year auction, No.6 Art Gallery, 2014, Tehran, Iran2013, 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- Outlook India magazine: https://www.outlookindia.com/national/supreme-court-may-have-legalised-transsexuality-but-what-about-society--magazine-223345

7- ART India magazine: https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci94v2cuRR8

8- Artamour: https://www.artamour.in/post/techn%C3%A9-disruptors-a-preview

Memberships:

A member of Iranian national photographer's society