Bahareh Akbarisafa

Bahareh is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in the UK. She specialises in Fine Art Photography and She graduated in Master of Fine Arts and Photography from the University for the Creative Arts in 2020. Throughout her career, her work
has concerned the relationships between cultural history, memory and identity as a Persian migrant.
She often adopts a poetic, metaphorical approach to explore the difficulties and confusion of visually representing and conserving the Persian identity through the medium of Photography to tell the stories. She is interested in society’s perceptions of Persian cultural identity and migration. Through her practice, She shifts the Persian identity out of contemporary political criticism into dynamic, static, symbolic and magical art and history of Persia (4500 years of civilisation and history), which is hidden behind the political news in Western society. In her recent projects and research, she is inspired by Persian Carpets, their symbolic patterns and Achaemenid Cuneiform. She has used the Persian carpet’s visual language in response to the poems she has written through her photographic illustrations.

Master of Fine Arts in Photography from The University for the Creative Arts

▪ Photography group exhibition at The Old Fire Station Gallery Gallery, 2024, UK
▪ Group exhibition at Penn Street Gallery, 2023, UK
▪ Photography group exhibition at The Lightbox Gallery, 2023, UK
▪ Photography group exhibition at The Lightbox Gallery, 2020, UK

▪ Photography Group Exhibition at Foyer Gallery UCA, 2019, UK

▪ Participated in Pint Sized Competition and Confirmed in the Exhibition at the Brewery Tap Project Space, 2019, UK

▪ Participated in collaboration Photography group exhibition with China, 2019, UK

▪ Photography group exhibition at The Lightbox Gallery, 2019, UK

▪ 1rd place at Lavasan artistic photography contest, march 2017, Iran

▪ 3rd place at Lavasan photography contest, march 2017, Iran