Mona  is a visual storyteller, documentary photographer, and narrative artist whose work bridges photography, editorial narrative, and human-centered storytelling. Through long-term visual projects, she explores the emotional landscapes where people, memory, and lived experience intersect, creating work that invites reflection and quiet observation.

Working across documentary, editorial, and fine art photography, Sartoveh approaches image-making as a way of understanding rather than simply documenting the world.

Alongside her photographic practice, she works as a co-writer in independent cinema, where her engagement with narrative structure, rhythm, silence, and visual language continues to shape her approach to visual storytelling.

In recent years, her practice has expanded beyond photography into the creation of long-form editorial projects that bring together images, writing, and design. Whether exploring personal subjects or collaborating with organizations, she is interested in the spaces between moments—the conversations, gestures, pauses, and relationships through which trust, vulnerability, resilience, and care become visible.

Her work is driven by a deep curiosity about the ways people experience and remember the world around them. Rather than seeking definitive answers, she creates photographs that encourage viewers to slow down, look closely, and discover meaning through observation, presence, and emotional connection.

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Exhibitions

• 2026

- Uprooted/Transplanted - Stories of Displacement ,

 “HUNTER” NAVE Gallery , Somerville , MA .  May1 -June 14, 2026​

• 2025

-"Gathering Place | A Family Album" Presented by The Griffin Museum of Photography ,On view at the Jenks Center, Winchester, MA ,October 1 – January 3, 2026

-SXSW , "Become the Breakthrough" CareAccess , Austin , TX
-The installation "Mirrors" at Brookline Book smith , Brookline , MA

• 2024

-Shortlisted and featured in the Recount Photography Agora Exhibition ,

entry "HOME", Tunis , Tunisia , North Africa

-Maine Museum of PhotographicArts , FIGURATIVE - The Body as Language ,  “HUNTER” , Portland, Maine.

-Displacement, stories of migration, "Pertaining to Losses" , City Hall e, Boston

-VCP 2024 Open Juried Exhibition , “HUNTER”  , Vermont Center for

Photography,Vermont

-The body as protest Exhabition , “HUNTER”  , SomArt(Somerville art council), Somerville

-LCB Depot’s to be part of FORMAT24 Festival, “HUNTER”  , London​​

• 2023

-The Fay Chandler Emerging Art Awards & Exhabition,entry“HUNTER” , City Hall, Boston

-LCB Depot’s , entry "HOME" , to be part of FORMAT23 following the theme 

What Photography Can Be , London​

• 2018
-A Group Photography Exhibition,entry "Unity in difference" Espace Beaurepaire, 28 rue beaurepaire, Paris, France

-TIFA, A Group Photography Exhibition,entry "Unity in difference "

CA Gallery, Tokyo ​

• 2017

-A Group Photography Exhibition , “Tehran Identity” , Hooner House Gallery , Tehran

-9th Pollux Awards International photography Exhibition “Unseen”, Galeria Valid Foto , Barcelona , Spain

-TIFA , A Group Photography Exhibition “Unseen” CA Gallery , Tokyo​

• 2016

IPA, A Group photography Exhibition “Hidden”, New York​

• 2015

-1PIX Group/4th photo group Exhibition, Zemestan Gallery, Iranian Artist Forum,Tehran

-The 2nd Celebration Of Iranian Still Photographers , Museum of the Qasr Prison,Tehran​

• 2011

The first Photo Exhibition Special Economic Free Zones Iran/Entitled "Caspian to the Persian Gulf" ,Tehran​

• 2010

Theatre Photography contest of views "about the revelation at a party off" , Iranian Artist Forum, Tehran​

• 2007

-Photo exhibition workshops’ Iran’s theater , Tehran

-The Tenth biennial Iran’s photos , Tehran​

• 2006

-Snow raining without noise (Photo Performance) , Performed at the Main building of City Theater of Tehran ,Tehran

-Wind blows every where it wants(Photo Performance),Performed at Saad Abad Gallery ,Tehran

-The second Festival press photo of Kaveh Golestan , Tehran

-Aks Negareh Ha , SilkRoadGallery ,Tehran​

• 2005

The First Festival press photo of Kaveh Golestan , Tehran​

• 2004

Desve lada , Mirada de fotografas ironies ,Madrid ,Spain​

• 2003

-Journalist women’s Radiancy , Aks khaneh shahr, Tehran

-The first Festival Photo handicrafts Iran ,Blue Hall of Niavaran Palace , Tehran

-The ninth biennial Iran’s photos ,Tehran