Exiled from his native Iran for his photography when he was only nineteen, Rahi Rezvani spent the following six-and-a-half years in Dutch refugee camps. Obsessively pursuing his passion for photography and visual arts under the most challenging circumstances, the exceptional quality of his work was soon recognised by private sponsors which eventually allowed him to enrol at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, graduating in 2008. Already during his studies, he made himself a name as the exclusive photographer for the Nederlands Dans Theater and has since collaborated with major international brands and personalities in the theatre, movie, fashion, design and music industry.
Rahi Rezvani is a portraitist of the empty landscape, of people, of haute couture, of dance. Rejecting any clichéd narrative, his work never attempts to tell lazy stories but to capture the unique energy of the moment when the essence of his subject reveals itself, when its very soul lays bare in front of his lens.
