Amin Khelghat is a fine art photographer whose work unfolds where motion, rhythm, and form collide. In series such as Motion Abstraction (dancers drawn as living lines), Herd Harmony (the raw surge of horses), and Echoes of Light (where projected patterns dissolve into portraiture), his black & white images trace a world sculpted by light, contrast, and silence.

With Urban Tales, his gaze drifts into the city, its fleeting shadows, its quiet figures, its chance encounters. Each photograph whispers of solitude and presence, of stories half-seen and half-imagined, where the ordinary carries the weight of mystery.

Publications & Awards

  • 06/2026 — Selected Photographer, URBAN Photo Awards 2026 (Spaces Category), Trieste Photo Days, Italy — Whisper of the Void

  • 05/2026 — Editor's Pick, LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2026

  • 05/2026 — Photograph Crossing published in Leica Fotografie International (LFI) Magazine, Germany (Print Edition)

  • 05/2026 — Leica Master Shot, Leica Fotografie International (LFI), Germany — Stillness

  • 03/2026 — Leica Master Shot, Leica Fotografie International (LFI), Germany — Crossing

  • 03/2026 — Winner, Leica Store Düsseldorf Monthly Photography Selection, Germany — Crossing

  • 08/2025 — Leica Master Shot, Leica Fotografie International (LFI), Germany — Whisper of the Void

  • 04/2017 — Photograph When God Sleeps published in Rolling Stone (Online Edition)

  • 07/2016 — Photograph of Iranian musician Ali Azimi published in The Guardian (Online Edition)

  • 03/2013 — Honorary Diploma, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, USA
    Winner of the 2010 Spring Show for International Students

Group Exhibitions

  • 10/2026 — URBAN Photo Awards 2026, Trieste Photo Days, Italy (Selected Photographer & Exhibited Artist) — Whisper of the Void (pending exhibition confirmation)

  • 12/2025 — Common Ground, theprintspace, London, United Kingdom

  • 07/2022 — Arte Expo Contemporary Granada, Granada, Spain

  • 11/2018 — Photo Popup Fair, Stilwerk, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • 06–08/2018 — 3rd Annual Iranian Expo, Shiva Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

  • 11/2015 — Art Capital, Grand Palais, Paris, France

Solo Exhibitions

  • 04–06/2017 — Motion Abstraction II, Stadtbücherei Bilk, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • 11–12/2016 — Motion Abstraction I, Galerie The Box, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • 04/2011 — Solo Photography Exhibition, JAZZAAR Festival, Aarau, Switzerland