Lima Vafadar was born in Tehran in 1985 and graduated with double degrees in Iranian Folklore Painting and Print Design from University of Applied Science of Tehran. She studied photography at the Mah-e-Mehr Art Institute with Dr. Hamid Severy, and she was privately trained by well-known contemporary Iranian photographers Shadi Ghadirian and Ali Nikpour. Vafadar’s photographic works, “Alley,” were the winner of competitions at Cafe Shuka and Iran’s Artist House. Her photo series, “Desert of Mesr,” have been published in Creative Photographer Magazine.

In early 2011, Vafadar moved to Germany to continue her master studies in Cultural Media at the University of Paderborn. After one year, she relocated to Berlin to start her studies in Fine Arts at the University of the Arts (UdK). Vafadar has contributed largely in group exhibitions in Berlin and Munich, and besides, she was also presented as a photographer as well as a performance artist in Tehran.

Vafadar deeply believes that, “Every means of expression is a vehicle, a creative source for my message. It is energy that floods the body, makes it glow. At home in the waters of art, I have no fear of drowning. My images are steeped in the words of Persian poetry, which is the very image of my life.”


QUALIFICATIONS
 – MA Visual Arts, Universität der Künste Berlin
 – Qualified Practitioner of the Pantarei Approach
 – Qualified Practitioner of the Quantum Healing