{"id":42178,"date":"2026-04-24T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=42178"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:00:10","slug":"nesam-keshavarz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/nesam-keshavarz\/","title":{"rendered":"Nesam Keshavarz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nesam Keshavarz is a freelance photographer born in 1993 in Tehran, Iran, where he continues to live and work. He is primarily focused on street photography, with a particular interest in documenting everyday life in Tehran. He holds a degree in photography and has participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally. His work has been published in several books and magazines, including <em>Best of LensCulture, Vol. 1<\/em> (2016), <em>Life on Instagram<\/em> (2017), and <em>Why Street Photography?<\/em> (2020). He has received multiple recognitions, including being named a finalist in the <strong>LensCulture Street Photography Awards<\/strong> (2016, 2019) and the <strong>Palm Springs Photo Festival<\/strong> (2019). Since 2017, he has served as the <strong>artistic director of the Street Photography Foundation<\/strong>. He is currently working toward a solo exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group Exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Chahargoosh<\/em>, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran \u2014 Spring 2015<\/li>\n<li><em>The End<\/em>, Mehrva Gallery, Tehran \u2014 2015<\/li>\n<li><em>Once Upon a Time<\/em>, Sales Gallery, Tehran \u2014 Summer 2017<\/li>\n<li><em>T\u00e9h\u00e9ran sur Smartphone<\/em>, FICEP Festival, Paris \u2014 Summer 2017<\/li>\n<li><em>228<\/em>, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran \u2014 Summer 2018<\/li>\n<li><em>Iran: In Parallel Stories<\/em>, Edinburgh \u2014 2018<\/li>\n<li>Whitespace Gallery, Scotland \u2014 2019<\/li>\n<li>Tehran Street Photography Festival, Iranian Artists Forum \u2014 2023<\/li>\n<li>Tehran Street Photography Festival, Iranian Artists Forum \u2014 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications \/ Appearances<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Mobile Photo Book: Out of the Phone<\/em> \u2014 2014<\/li>\n<li>France Photo Magazine \u2014 2014<\/li>\n<li>Iran Photography Magazine, Vol. 1 \u2014 2016<\/li>\n<li><em>Best of LensCulture, Vol. 1<\/em> \u2014 2016<\/li>\n<li><em>Life on Instagram<\/em> \u2014 2017<\/li>\n<li><em>Why Street Photography?<\/em> \u2014 2020<\/li>\n<li>Fotosfer, Turkish Photography Foundation \u2014 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Festivals and Competitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Photo Leggendo International Photo Festival (with 1415 Project), Rome \u2014 2015<\/li>\n<li>LensCulture Street Photography Awards \u2014 Finalist, Paris\/Arles \u2014 2016<\/li>\n<li>Palm Springs Photo Festival \u2014 Finalist \u2014 2019<\/li>\n<li>LensCulture Street Photography Awards \u2014 Finalist \u2014 2019<\/li>\n<li>13th Image of the Year, Iranian Artists Forum \u2014 Winner<\/li>\n<li>2nd Tehran Mobile Festival, Iranian Artists Forum \u2014 Winner<\/li>\n<li>Istanbul Street Photo Festival \u2014 Jury Member \u2014 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nesam Keshavarz is a freelance photographer born in 1993 in Tehran, Iran, where he continues to live and work. He is primarily focused on street photography, with a particular interest in documenting everyday life in Tehran. He holds a degree in photography and has participated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[607],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42180,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42178\/revisions\/42180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}