Ahmad Halabisaz is a Paris-based freelance photographer and visual storyteller specializing in documentary photography focused on social issues, conflict, and human resilience. With over two decades of experience, he began photographing at the age of fourteen and trained in photojournalism at the Iranian Journalists Association University. Since 2004, he has worked as a freelance photojournalist for leading Iranian media before expanding his work internationally. His assignments have taken him across Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and France, where he has documented stories of migration, war, and social transformation. His work is regularly published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is the recipient of multiple international awards, including World Press Photo 2023, PX3 Photo Festival, Deadline Club Awards (New York), and the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. Most recently, he covered the aftermath of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan for the Associated Press (AP). Ahmad is available for editorial assignments, long-term documentary projects, NGO collaborations, and commissioned visual storytelling work worldwide.

Ahmadreza Halabisaz

Ahmad Halabisaz is a Paris-based freelance photographer and visual storyteller specializing in documentary photography focused on social issues, conflict, and human resilience. With over two decades of experience, he began photographing at the age of fourteen and trained in photojournalism at the Iranian Journalists Association University. Since 2004, he has worked as a freelance photojournalist for leading Iranian media before expanding his work internationally. His assignments have taken him across Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and France, where he has documented stories of migration, war, and social transformation. His work is regularly published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. He is the recipient of multiple international awards, including World Press Photo 2023, PX3 Photo Festival, Deadline Club Awards (New York), and the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. Most recently, he covered the aftermath of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan for the Associated Press (AP). Ahmad is available for editorial assignments, long-term documentary projects, NGO collaborations, and commissioned visual storytelling work worldwide.

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Ahmad Halabisaz is a Paris-based freelance photographer and visual storyteller specializing in documentary photography focused on social issues, conflict, and human resilience.
With over two decades of experience, he began photographing at the age of fourteen and trained in photojournalism at the Iranian Journalists Association University. Since 2004, he has worked as a freelance photojournalist for leading Iranian media before expanding his work internationally.
His assignments have taken him across Iran, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon, and France, where he has documented stories of migration, war, and social transformation. His work is regularly published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.

He is the recipient of multiple international awards, including World Press Photo 2023, PX3 Photo Festival, Deadline Club Awards (New York), and the Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar. Most recently, he covered the aftermath of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan for the Associated Press (AP).

Ahmad is available for editorial assignments, long-term documentary projects, NGO collaborations, and commissioned visual storytelling work worldwide.

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Language

English
Fluent
Persian
Fluent

Work Experience

Freelance Photographer at The Associated Press (AP)
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2021
Coverage of Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover.
Photographer at The Globe and Mail
January 1, 2020 - January 1, 2020
Coverage of the Ukrainian plane crash in Iran.
Freelance Photographer at Le Monde
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021
Social and political reportage on Iran.
Freelance Photographer at Getty Images
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2012
Coverage of the Van earthquake.
Chief Photographer at Xinhua News Agency
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2021
News coverage in Iran.
Freelance Photographer at Iranian Local Media
January 1, 2006 - January 1, 2009
Coverage of Iran.

Education

Photo journalism at Iranian Journalists Association University, Tehran, Iran
January 1, 2005 - January 1, 2008

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Other