About Mohammad Moalagh

Who am I?
I’m Mohammad Moalagh — born in December 1990, in Shiraz, Iran; a place famous for poetry, wine, and the kind of irony that keeps you sane.
I write, photograph, and make films — both documentary and fiction — because stories are the only currency that never fully collapses.

My work moves between politics and poetry, humor and despair, the personal and the collective. I’m interested in how people endure, how memory resists, and how laughter sometimes becomes the last form of rebellion.

I come from a generation that grew up watching ideals decay and absurdity normalize. So I don’t preach hope — I practice witness. I document what survives: gestures, fragments, acts of quiet defiance.
Some call it documentary. I call it trying not to lose my mind.

I don’t believe art can save anyone. But in a world that trades truth for trends and silence for safety, art still feels like the most honest act left — a small, stubborn way of saying: I was here, I saw, I refused to look away.