Profile
Atefe Moeini is a researcher, photographer, video and visual artist based in Iran. Her work combines imaginative visual narratives with an intuitive approach to image-making. Drawing from personal experiences, she creates photographs that explore the intersections of individuality and shared human connection. As part of the 2023 Tehran Biennale, Moeini presented a photo installation titled Six Windows and a Balcony in an apartment in downtown Tehran, where she had lived during the 2022 protests in Iran.
Her work has been featured in group exhibitions such as "Woman-Life-Freedom" at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo (2023), "Another Birth" at Jossa by Alserkal in Dubai (2023), and the Tbilisi Photography and Multimedia Museum (2022). Her series "This Is 18" for The New York Times was exhibited at the Sydney Opera House (2019), PhotoVille in Los Angeles (2018), and published as a book by Jessica Bennett (2019).
In 2021, Moeini received the Penumbra Foundation/Image Threads Scholarship for the Long-Term Photobook Program and she also participated in the Tbilisi Photo Festival’s program Isolated Communities: New Narratives, New Ways of Being and Living.
Her work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, Lenscratch, and The Quick + The Brave Journal. Moeini is currently an MFA candidate at the Yale School of Art.
