Laurence Rasti was born in 1990 to Iranian parents in Switzerland. She obtained a Bachelor in Photography at ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne, in 2014, and a Master in Fine Arts at HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design, in 2019. In her photographs she explores the concepts of identity and beauty. Relying on the dual quality of her cultural background, she looks at Swiss and Iranian cultural codes and conventions from a new angle in order to understand the influence of gender roles in society, but also the consequences of migration or the non-respect of fundamental rights.
In 2017 she published the book There Are No Homosexuals in Iran with the Edition Patrick Frey and got shortlisted at the Paris Photo Aperture First Photobook Award, the Author Book Award of the Rencontres d’Arles and nominated as one of the 10 best photobooks of 2017 by the New York Times Magazine.
Her work has been exhibited in various groups and solo exhibitions around the world, including ReGeneration3 at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Disruptive Perspectives at the Museum of Contemporary in Chicago, Iran Contemporary at the Fotohof Art Gallery in Austria, and different festivals like PhotoKatmandu, Athens Photo Festival or Tokyo International Photography Festival.
She is currently working on the Enquête Photographique Genevoise that will be exhibited this fall in the urban space in Geneva.
Laurence Rasti
Based in Geneva, Switzerland
hello@laurencerasti.ch
Published by
Edition Patrick Frey
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Represented by
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Education & Experience
Award & Shortlist
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2012
Monography
Publication
Press & Interview
- 24heures - La jeunesse prend ses photos à l’Elysée
- RTS - Vertigo
- RTS - La puce à l’oreille
- France Inter - Regardez voir
- L’Obs - "J'ai voulu donner aux homosexuels d'Iran un visage"
- Konbini - En images : Laurence Rasti photographie les homosexuels iraniens
- CNN - Exploring homosexual identity through anonymity
- Arte - Circulation(s), le festival de la jeune photographie européenne
- Le Temps - Un Swiss Photo Award pour Laurence Rasti
2017
2015
Talk & Workshop
- Workshop organized by ProHelvetia in Yangon, Myanmar
- Artist talk during Safe paces/unsafe times at Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi, India
- Artist talk with Prasiit Sthapit, Photo Kathmandu, Nepal
- Artist talk at the Lumiere Brothers Center, Moscow, Russia
- Two months of video courses for the asylum seeker in Geneva - short film presented during FIFDH, in collaboration with Act on your future, Geneva, Switzerland
2019
2018
2017
Past Exhibitions
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L’enquête photographique genevoise 2019
Geneva, Switzerland
More info soon! -
C’est certain, seul l’Amour sauvera le monde
With Alain Huck, Sandrine Pelletier, Laurence Rasti, Zheng Bo
Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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BredaPhoto
Breda, Netherlands
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Bourses de la Ville de Genève
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève
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Humanitarian Principles. Here & Now
International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent,
Geneva, Switzerland -
Vis-à-Vis
Fotodocks, Festival for Contemporary Documentary Photography,
Munich, Germany -
Imago Lisboa
Lisbon, Portugal
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Amour(s)
Arcoop Wall Project,
Geneva, Switzerland -
Exposition universel de la Raclette
Palp festival,
Bruson, Switzerland -
Solo exhibition
The Ballery,
Berlin, Germany -
Stadtprojektionen
Stadtprojektionen 3,
St. Gallen, Switzerland -
Solo exhibition
Pansurya Gallery,
Yangon, Myanmar -
Photo Kathmandu
Nepal
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Exhibition of the Book Award at the Rencontres d’Arles
Espace Monoprix, Arles, France
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Humanitarian Principales, Here & Now
La Nuit des images, Musée de l’Élysée,
Lausanne, Switzerland -
Photobookfest 2018
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography,
Moscow, Russia -
10×10 Photobooks by Women
Reading Room at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, USA
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Disruptive Perspectives
Museum of Contemporary, Chicago, USA
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Disruptive Perspectives
Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland
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Solo exhibition, sic!
Raum für Kunst, Lucerne, Switzerland
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Iran Contemporary
Fotohof Art Gallery, Austria
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From the world, with love!
Quartier General (QG), Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
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Magnum Photography Awards
Brighton Photo Biennial, UK
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Festival les Photaumnales
Clérmont dans l’Oise, France
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Daegu Photo Biennale 2016
Daegu, South Korea
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Athens Photo Festival
Hellenic Centre for Photography, Greece
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ReGeneration3
QUAD Galleries, Derby, UK
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Strange Fire Collective
The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, USA
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Swiss Design Award
Basel, Switzerland
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Y’a pas le feu au lac
Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland
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Young European Photography
Galerie Maupetit, Marseille, France
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Exhibition at the State Secretariat for Migration
Bern, Switzerland
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Human Right 2015
Geneva, Switzerland
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Prink Screen Film Festival
Brussels, Belgium
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ReGeneration3
Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
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TIPF United Photo Industries Gallery
New York, USA
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Tokyo International Photography Festival
Tokyo, Japan
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Encontros da Imagem
Braga, Portugal
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Festival Voix Off
Arles, France
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Malmö Fotobiennal
Sweden
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Belfast Photo Festival
Northern Ireland
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ReGeneration3: New perspectives for photography
Musée de l’Élysée, Switzerland
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The Smell of Dust
Sao Paulo, Brazil
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ewz.selection Swiss Photo Award
Zurich, Switzerland
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Boutographies
Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier, France
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Circulation(s), Festival for the Young European Photography
CENTQUATRE, Paris, France
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SELECTION AUSWAHL
PhotoforumPasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland
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L’Art se Livre
Fine Arts Museum Le Locle, Le Locle, Switzerland
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Corso Como
ECAL photorgaphy, Shanghai, China
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ECAL Photography
Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
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Young Swiss photographers
Book and press fair, Geneva, Switzerland
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Espace Tilt
Price of encouragement of the city of Renens with Marc Dubois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Savoir Faire
Ecal, Milano, Italia
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ECAL Photography
Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, France
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Shark eat monkeys
under the direction of Maya Rochat
Ecal, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Junk Museum
curated by Thomas Mailender
Ecal, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Half-Time 2013
Hall Kudelski, Ecal, Lausanne, Switzerland