Solmaz Daryani
Women Photograph
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Solmaz Daryani is a self-taught Iranian photographer based in Tabriz, Iran and Newcastle, UK. her long term personal works explore the connections between socio-economic drought, climate change migration, water crisis, and the environment in her native Iran.
Through her long-term projects, she seeks to connect documentary photography and fictional storytelling, by exploring personal narratives that reveal characters and scenes in the communities that she is drawn towards. She believes working in long intervals provides the opportunity to develop a deeper and closer relationship with her subject. her work has been published in various media outlets including Foreign Policy, British Journal of Photography, Le Monde, Polka, Woman Paper Visa journal, Dutch geography schoolbook de Geo, Télérama Magazine, One World, Fish Eye Magazine, Emerge Magazine, Kel12 Magazine and Le Point.
In 2015, she received the IdeasTap and Magnum Photos Grant while working on the long-term project The Eyes of Earth, an investigation into the environmental and human impact of the drying of Lake Urmia which is one of the most unfortunate environmental disasters of Iran and in 2016 she received Magnum Foundation Grant, Photography in Collaboration for a call themed “On Religion”. she had proposed a project documenting the intersection of religion and environment with a focus on minority religious community in Iran. The grant also provided her funding to participate in a three-week program conducted by Brown Institute for Media Innovation and in 2018 she received the Second Place, PhotogrVphy Grant in the category of Climate and was shortlisted for The International Women Photographers Association award in France. She is a member of women photograph and her latest exhibition was in 2017 the Rencontres d’Arles, “Iran, Year 38” in Arles.
She is based in between UK and Iran.available for assignments.
2018 - PhotogrVphy Grant in the category of Climate, 2018 - The IWPA Award, 2017 - Magnum Foundation Grant, 2016 - Magnum Photos Grant, 2016 - D&AD Next Photographer Award, 2014 - Tirgan Contemporary Art Prize , 2014 - Borsa International Photography Festival
- Audio capture
- Crisis
- Editorial
- Environment
- Landscape
- Video capture
- English
- Azerbaijani
- Turkish
- Persian