I am Enayat Asadi, a freelance researcher photographer I was born in Iran.
In 2017 I started professional photography self-taught. I am in search of discovering the fundamental issues of human life and tragedy. My concentration in photography is on social justice, human rights, violence, poverty and mental issues.
From 2017 to 2019, following the aftermath of the Afghanistan war, I began photograph Afghan immigrants and covering issues of illegal immigrants for my project Rising From the Ashes of War.
From 2019 I spent nearly a year travelling through the hinterland, across deserts and mountains to remote villages and isolated communities. I worked on a personal project called "Ranj" suffering, and chronicled the hardships and misfortunes of those hidden from view.
In 2020 to 2021, I moved on to my next project "Hard Land", following the Bakhtiari nomads in south Iran, operating in the way I have always done since becoming a photographer, by immersing myself fully into strangers’ lives and gaining their absolute trust. I captured their strength and rich culture in front of the hardship they endure in the intimate images that allow outsiders a gaze into the unseen.
From 2021 to now I am working on an ongoing project "Survivors of Death Row” about people who are convicted murderers and were sentenced to death.
As a photographer I believe the artist’s duty is to make connections between things.
I strive to traverse time by making a bridge from the past to the present moment and into the future.
