Khashayar Javanmardi STUDIO
Artist | Photographer | Educator
Life-time Projects
The Caspian Lake
WWW
Tales From Purgatory
DDQ
Stories
Grand Bazaar
Israel Palestine
Gang Style
Radiography Farsi (Podcast)
MAMÂT Art Collective
Information
Contact
Khashayar Javanmardi STUDIO
Artist | Photographer | Educator
Life-time Projects
The Caspian Lake
WWW
Tales From Purgatory
DDQ
Stories
Grand Bazaar
Israel Palestine
Gang Style
Radiography Farsi (Podcast)
MAMÂT Art Collective
Information
Contact
STUDIO
B.A in Photojournalism from Danish Media and Journalism School (DMJX)
Addmited MFA from Yale University, deffered due to the U.S new immigration laws.
2023 - Present
Photo Elysee Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2023 - Present
Educator, 2015 - Present
Ambassador of Save The Caspian Sea NGO, 2025 - Present
Founder of MAMÂT Art Collective, 2020 - 2023
Photographer, Jaam Photo Agency, 2013-2015
Upcoming... Le locle, Switzerland 2026
Caspian Lake, First Museum Solo, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2025
Caspian Lake, SIFEST, Savignano sul Rubicone, Italy 2025
Caspian, Alt+1000, Le Locle, Switzerland 2025
Caspian, Swiss Design Award, Art Basel, Base, Switzerland 2025
Caspian Is Not A Sea, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, 2024
Caspian, Window 14 Gallery, Gevena, Switzerland, 2024
Evidence Road, Silkroad Gallery, Paris Photo Fair, Paris, France, 2023
Caspian Eyes, Choom Gallery, Anzali, Iran, 2022
Looking for Tethys, Arqavan Gallery, Rasht, Iran, 2022
Urban Portrain, Kommune Aarhus, Denmark, 2021
Sheed Show, Silkroad Gallery, Tehran, 2019
Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden Museum, Dresden, Germany, 2019
PhotoForum, First Prize, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Aperture Portfolio Shortlist, U.S. 2024
TruePicture, Special Mention, Switzerland, 2024
PhMuseum Grant, Second Prize, Spain, 2024
Un/Fund Grant Award, Netherlands, 2023
Lenzburg Fotofestival, Shortlisted, Switzerland, 2023
Verzasca Foto Gold Medal, Switzerland, 2023
Prix Elysee, Special Jury Mention, Switzerland, 2023
ECCA Family Foundation, Grant Award, Denmark, 2020
International Photography Grant, London, Nominee, 2018
The Guardian; Observer Big Picture
Creative Review; Documenting life and decay along the Caspian Sea
CNN; Striking Photographs document environmental decay on world’s largest lake
Foul smells and survival along the Caspian Sea – in pictures
This Is Paper; Caspian
Collector Daily; Khashayar Javanmardi, Caspian; A Southern Reflection
Booooooom; Caspian
Save The Caspian Sea - Official Ambassador
Special Jury mention of Prix Elysee
Blind Magazine; Through Window; By Sabyl Ghoussoub
Musée Magazine; Caspian; A Southern Reflection
Artdaily, Caspian Sea’s environmental crisis
International Photography Magazine; To leave, or not to leave
Caspian; A Southern Reflection, published by LooseJoints, 2024
See The Caspian, Published by Elysee Museum, Nominee books, 2023
Last Updated 14.12.25
I was in the first grade. My teacher said that ‘My best students live abroad, they immigrated.’ My parents talked about their classmates who lived abroad. My aunts, uncles, my extended family, and my distant relatives migrated one by one.
Going abroad for me meant a better life, more respect and civil freedom, more peace of mind, and better welfare.
In short, to me, life was defined somewhere beyond my country’s borders.
At university I realized that I was not alone,
One year and a half ago I left Iran and came to Turkey.
In Turkey, I found out that thousands of Iranians with claims of their lives being threatened by the violation of their social, religious, political, and sexual rights have applied for the UN refugee program and they have been living in Turkey for years with the dream of resettlement in the US, Australia or Canada.
Year: 2015-Ongoing