About the Artist

Tannaz Saatchi is an Iranian-Canadian photographer who examines memory, nostalgia, and the body through a cross-cultural, feminist lens. Working both within and outside the studio, she uses objects and tableaux to explore her relationship with others and herself. Saatchi’s photography reveals the emotions embedded in everyday objects and spaces. As a second-generation immigrant shaped by the Iranian diaspora, her cultural identity is built through inherited traditions, language, and objects rather than firsthand experience. Her practice bridges the absence and presence of Iran in her life, inviting reflection on the layered, ever-evolving nature of cultural identity and the fragility of memory.

Saatchi has received the Evangelos “Angie” Apostolides Scholarship, the Andrew Oksakovsky and Dr. Emily Goetz Memorial Scholarship, and the Marion V. Murray Memorial Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited in Piggybacks through the Living Room, Onto Tomorrow, Ghost Images, and Why Photography, and published in SeaBuzz Magazine, The Unfiltered, and Woo Publication. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art and Design.