About Mohammad Moalagh

Who Am I?

I’m Mohammad Moalagh—born in December 1990 in Shiraz, a city famous for raising poets and executing them, sometimes in the same breath.

I write, photograph, and make films—both documentary and fiction—because stories are the only currency that doesn’t fold under pressure. In a place where truth is negotiable and silence is mandatory, stories are a dangerous kind of wealth.

My work exists in the tension between politics and poetry, humor and despair, the personal and the collective. I’m drawn to endurance: how people keep moving when the rules are against them, how memory insists on surviving, and how laughter becomes a subtle, defiant rebellion.

I come from a generation that grew up watching ideals decay and absurdity normalize. I don’t preach hope—I witness. I record what survives: gestures, fragments, acts of quiet resistance. 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 fear for safety, making art is still the most honest act left—a stubborn way of saying: I was here. I saw this. I refused to look away.