Maryam Ashrafi Artwork
Maryam Ashrafi is a Paris-based Iranian photographer, born in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War. With a deep passion for sociology, she focuses on social and political issues, particularly resistance movements and the aftermath of conflict.
For years, she documented social unrest in Paris, covering the mobilization of Kurdish and Iranian diasporas and riots sparked by political and social crises. Committed to long-term projects, she has covered the aftermath of wars from Kobane in Northern Syria to Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan from 2012 to 2018. Her work on Kurdish resistance movements has been the subject of several exhibitions and publications.
Her first book, Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets, which won the Prix HIP and Lucie Photo Book Prize, documents the consequences of war and the lives of civilians returning to their homes in Northern Syria and the autonomous Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq.
Her long-term work on Kurdish issues has also driven her to work as a camerawoman in documentaries such as I Am The Revolution, and her first documentary film, Eternal Sentinel, was released in early 2022. It has been selected for the FIGRA and PriMed festivals in France, as well as the Warm Festival in Sarajevo, and has been screened at the Frontline Club in London and Stanford University in the U.S.
Maryam Ashrafi is a Paris-based Iranian photographer, born in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq War. With a deep passion for sociology, she focuses on social and political issues, particularly resistance movements and the aftermath of conflict.
For years, she documented social unrest in Paris, covering the mobilization of Kurdish and Iranian diasporas and riots sparked by political and social crises. Committed to long-term projects, she has covered the aftermath of wars from Kobane in Northern Syria to Sinjar in Iraqi Kurdistan from 2012 to 2018. Her work on Kurdish resistance movements has been the subject of several exhibitions and publications.
Her first book, Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets, which won the Prix HIP and Lucie Photo Book Prize, documents the consequences of war and the lives of civilians returning to their homes in Northern Syria and the autonomous Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq.
Her long-term work on Kurdish issues has also driven her to work as a camerawoman in documentaries such as I Am The Revolution, and her first documentary film, Eternal Sentinel, was released in early 2022. It has been selected for the FIGRA and PriMed festivals in France, as well as the Warm Festival in Sarajevo, and has been screened at the Frontline Club in London and Stanford University in the U.S.