About

I was born in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 4, my parents and I moved to Tehran, Iran.

In 2001, a month before 9/11 (never forgetti), I was sent back to America to continue my education.

In 2005, I lost my mother to cancer.

The following years, I spent most of my time on MySpace while trying to figure out what to do with my life. By doing so, I was exposed to a world of visual arts like I had never experienced before. I fell in love with graphic design and decided to go to school for it.

I graduated college in 2011, and around the same time, was given a digital camera by one friend and a film camera by another.

I was working as a graphic designer and photographing friends and friends of friends on the weekends for fun. Eventually, I got fired from that job but kept doing photo shoots while looking for another design job.

Slowly, I started booking clients who were willing to pay me a few hundred bucks to shoot stuff for their brands, so I decided to pursue a new career and become a male stripper. Kidding. I decided to pursue photography as a career instead of design.

From 2013 to 2016, I made "a name" in the industry by photographing celebrities, models, and working with renowned brands like Bare Minerals, Jaguar North America, The Hundreds, House of Bijan, and your mom. Still reading?

Towards the end of 2015, I started realizing that most of my pursuits had been superficial. I started questioning my direction and the intentions behind it. Everything I had been photographing until that point was a copy of other people's blueprints that came before me and I was starting to feel like a fraud.

In 2016, I found meditation and began the process of dismantling all I had known and held onto. The more I dug in, the more I realized I don't know anything about the intricacies of life or have any self awareness; and that I am, in fact, a dumbass.

The meditation hit so hard that it made me curious about a bunch of other subjects like mysticism, quantum physics, and psychedelics. I formed a new relationship with light, photography, history, and your mother.

That same year I stopped posting on social media and taking on new clients. I fell in love with photographing plants and flowers (lost 100,000 followers on Instagram because of it), and my main subject of study became light itself. The only way to truly showcase light was to use shadows, thus establishing an approach in my work that became very shadow-heavy.

From 2016 to 2018, I worked on a coffee table book shot entirely on film called Private Collection (not a great name, in hindsight). I self-published and sold out the first edition.

In 2019, I collaborated with Feeny's Photo on a collection of 1 of 1 pieces called Optica (a name I'm still proud of). We presented the series during a month-long exhibition in Beverly Hills, turning photography into a sculptural experience.

Additionally, in 2019, I published a handbook for photographers titled 'Photo Zero.' This work is rooted in the belief that the eye behind the viewfinder is a more crucial element in photography than the camera itself. The foundation of the book, referred to as 'Chapter 0,' emphasizes the importance of presence and the practice of shifting perspectives.

In 2020, the pandy (pandemic) hit. The world shut down, but I was already accustomed to a slower pace of life, so I continued photographing plants and flowers. However, towards the end of the year, I began to reconnect and collaborate with models from the earlier part of my career.

This resurgence set the stage for the following years, where my work evolved into a blend of everything I had been capturing for the past decade: people, nature, cars, and your mom (another one!).

It's now 2025, and I've become the photographer behind something that is part art gallery, part secret society. A curated world for those who prefer their work rare, unsearchable, and completely offline.

Was this a good bio? You're not going to remember so who even cares.

There's a lot of freedom in knowing that 90% of people's attention spans are fried, and the other 10% are too busy worrying about the microplastics in their butts.

Which means in a few minutes, you won't remember this page and you'll go back to worrying about the microplastics in your tits.

This is usually the part where an artist says something meaningful and deep.

Taxes are haram.