Carmen Daneshmandi

Carmen Daneshmandi is a first generation Spanish-Iranian photographer, videographer & visual artist currently based between Barcelona and New York. Her work often calls upon her own lineage and selfhood to inform her creative practice, disrupting traditional approaches in image making with a keen and powerful sensibility of color, playfulness, juxtaposition, and mixed media narratives. Driven by that texture of identity and culture, her work carefully balances the crosshairs of fine art, portraiture, fashion, and reportage. It is through these visual signifiers that she creates a poetic and cathartic space from which to infuse her subjects with the collaborative possibility of their own empowerment, blossoming visual capital, and self-preservation with fantasy.