Mohsen Rastani (1958) is an Iranian documentary photographer of the post-revolutionary generation. He graduated in photography from the University of Tehran. Throughout his career, he has documented social and humanitarian issues in various conflict and post-conflict environments, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he worked from 1994 until mid-1996, photographing Sarajevo, Tuzla, and Mostar. His work has been exhibited extensively in Iran and internationally, including at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris in 2014. Today, Mohsen Rastani lives and works in Germany. Mohsen Rastani is not a conventional war photographer. His photographs portray people during wartime, recording pain, suffering, and loneliness, but also brief moments of happiness. In his own words, photography is a medium for freezing time within a frame. Yet his images are full of life: a man still stands on one leg, a woman with a burned face is still alive, a child on the street looks back at the viewer with the gaze of an adult. Time is not frozen in any of these photographs.
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