About

Laurence Rasti (b. 1990, Switzerland) is a Swiss-Iranian visual artist working primarily with photography. She holds a BA in Photography from ECAL and an MA in Fine Arts from HEAD – Geneva. Her work explores themes of identity, visibility, and representation, often rooted in the tension between her Swiss and Iranian heritage. She questions cultural norms and gender roles, and more recently, her projects have focused on the consequences of migration and the denial of fundamental rights. Her book There Are No Homosexuals in Iran (Edition Patrick Frey, 2017) was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture First Book Award and the Rencontres d’Arles Author Book Award, and was named one of the 10 best photobooks of the year by The New York Times Magazine.

Her work has been shown internationally, including at the Musée de l’Elysée (Lausanne), Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago), Fotohof (Salzburg), and at festivals such as Photo Kathmandu, Athens Photo Festival, and Tokyo International Photography Festival.

In 2024, she was awarded the Neuchâtel Photographic Investigation Grant for Wall as Horizon, a multi-voiced project on incarceration and the punishment of poverty, published by Scheidegger & Spiess and presented in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle (MBAL).

Since 2020, she has been a lecturer and head of the photography unit in the Bachelor of Visual Arts program at EDHEA – École de design et haute école d’art du Valais.

Laurence Rasti
Based in Geneva, Switzerland
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Published by
There Are No Homosexuals in Iran
Edition Patrick Frey

Wall as Horizon
Scheidegger & Spiess

Part of East Wing

Member of near.

Member of Visarte Genève

Co-founder of Association AF*

 

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