I am a multidisciplinary Spanish-Iranian photographer, videographer & visual artist. Driven by that texture of identity and with various cultural references from my own upbringing, my work combines portraiture and storytelling and disrupts it with a sensibility of color, playfulness, and mixed media. Using collage, object, personal history, and words, I look to thoughtfully create a poetic, informed, and cathartic space from which to better understand my place in the world and to infuse my subjects with the possibility of their own empowerment and self-preservation with fantasy. My work spans the arenas of editorial, video, music, fine art, fashion, and reportage. Working on personal and commissioned projects. Currently based in Barcelona. Available worldwide.
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Select Clients include: The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, FADER, Esperanza Spalding, L’Officiel Italia, Billboard, PAPER, CNN Travel, Fool's Gold Records, The Standard, British GQ, ZARA, Penguin Books, Nordstrom, Dolce Vita Shoes, Gold Coast Trading Company and Moda Operandi.
PUBLISHED
Decolonising Every Day: A Calendar Zine by Carmen Daneshmandi - Vogue.com
'La Mujer Española: Un Retrato Contemporáneo de Fuerza y Belleza' - Vogue España
Festival Echoes #10 Interview with Carmen Daneshmandi - PhotoVogue
Decolonizing the calendar in Carmen Daneshmandi’s latest zine - British Journal of Photography
Photographers To Know: Carmen Daneshmandi - SHEER Worldwide
What It’s Like Being Under Lockdown In Spain- PAPER Magazine
Pandemic Photos Foster Community and Connection In Spite of Isolation - CNN Travel
Esperanza Spalding Wants To Connect You To Your Body - Vanity Fair
Rising Singer ZIM Talks New EP, Exploring Heritage & Growing Up in Foster Care - Billboard
Parker Kit Hill x The Standard - Standard Sounds
Before We Were Banned: Interview with Carmen Daneshmandi - Khabar Keslan
Artists Respond To The One-Year Anniversary of Trump's Muslim Ban - i-D
Tei Shi's Nimble R & B - The New Yorker
The Legend Upstairs: Writer, Poet, & Activist Hettie Jones - The Standard
There's Nothing More Punk Than Being Yourself - The FADER
Meet Gallant, The R&B Singer Who Just Wants To Learn - The FADER
13 Artists Create Original Covers For Their Favorite Books - Penguin Books
Lyn Slater Accidental Icon - L'Officiel Italia
BTS Staz Lindes & Langley Fox - The Thread
BOSCO Talks 'Boy EP' - Billboard Magazine
Discovery: BOSCO - Interview Magazine
Metal Head: Philip Crangi - Nordstrom
EXHIBITIONS + RECOGNITIONS
2025 - WeCreateSpace LGBTQ+ Award in Media & Creative Influence
2024 - Todo Es De Color, solo show Bērtyī, Barcelona, Spain
2023 - PhotoVogue x Vogue España: “La Mujer Española”, BASE Milano, Italy
2021 - Continue To Be, group show, 324 Grand Street, NY
2021 - British Journal of Photography’s “Female in Focus” exhibition, ElBarrio’s Artspace, NY
2020 - Finalist in Authority Collective’s 2020 Lit List
2018 - Carmen Daneshmandi & Lisa Case: Dual Collage Show, Cloud City, Brooklyn, NY
2018 - Before We Were Banned exhibition, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
2016 - Featured in The Best Photographs FADER Took This Year
2016 - Featured in PDN's Emerging Photographer Winter 2016
2016 - Mano Marketa Pop Up, Brooklyn, NY
2016 - Game Recognize Game exhibition, Seattle, WA
2016 - Nominated for PDN's 30: New & Emerging Photographers To Watch
2014 - Notions of Beauty: NW Fashion Photography Now exhibition, Portland, OR
2014 - UNTITLED WOMAN exhibition, Seattle, WA