BABAK MANI is a photographer based in Paris and was born in Shahi a small town of Iran, his focus is on portraiture in photography.
Around the age of ten and alongside his studies, Babak ‏started learning photography in his father’s old traditional atelier and in the darkroom, where he found out how to develop film, make a B&W photo print and also shooting portrait with a large format camera. So right from the beginning his portraits concentrated more on black and white. During these years photography as a first love found its place in Babak’s life.
He continued in Tehran and through the twenties, it’s his honor to worked and took portraits from lots of Iranian artists and notable individuals in his atelier. He did photography with the B&W 120 Negative. His photographs were published on the covers of too many magazines, cover of artists’ books, music albums, singers’ posters and also displayed as advertising billboards. Part of his work from Iranian contemporary artists was selected for a Book that published in 2009. His portraits were presented for two years at the fixed exhibition in Tehran, Farmaniyeh 2010-2011.
For various reasons, Babak decided to continue to learn photography in Paris.
From the early thirties, he has also interested in environmental portrait photography of the way of life from ordinary people, he is influenced by the wonders of everyday life from his patched happiness and his patched miseries. He sometimes travels to various places with a small camera and takes photos of people in their daily lives.
When he settles in Paris, his focus is on portraiture and a significant portion of his works focuses on women.

Babak is constantly trying to recreate himself in photography and also in the world around him.
In his opinion, there isn’t any boundary in photography.

“co-writer; Jean Claude Duny