Mona’s career started as a Fine Art landscape Photographer in 1996. As an Iranian born artist and living in the U.S. for most part of her life, Mona’s landscapes appropriately represents the struggle of change through her photography. She defines change in her immediate environment,  the build in environment and Natural Landscapes. Through her environmental series, a collection of urban and industrial landscapes, she reveals the struggles of the natural and man made surroundings. The Salem Power Plant series from 1999-2004, defined her work and perspective, through environmental pollution. Her most recent work from 2017-(ongoing) the ICE Project, allows the audience to experience again this struggle of change through receding ice and diptychs of what the land used to be. The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine, The LA times, Improper Bostonian Magazine, PDN Magazine, Digital Photographer Magazine US and UK, CMYK Photography Magazine, Treehugger, Planet Green on the Discovery Channel, and more have featured her series in their respective issues. 

 

Her photography has also been included in Galleries and Museums nationally and internationally. Copley Society of Art Gallery ( CO|SO ) in Boston, receiving the JoAnne Gonzalla Award for Excellence in Art, Environmental Stewardship Award from Sterling Planet.  In January of 2009 she showcased her first Solo Show called, Sustainable Photography, sponsored by the City of San Francisco at the Somart Cultural Center Gallery. In 2010 her work was featured in a group exhibition at the Palm Springs Museum, 1 work and her book entered in the permanent collection of the museum.  Mona’s Photograph called, “ Melting Glacier - Iceberg lake MT “, was accepted in Earth Photo, an incredible International Exhibition in London at the Royal Geographical Society, exhibiting from July 6th - August 22nd 2019 and went on tour from July 6th - September 4th 2019 at Fineshade Wood, Corby Forest, September 30th - December 15th 2019 at Moors Valley Country Park & Forest, Dorse, lastly the last stop of the tour from December 19th - April 28th 2020 at Grizedale Forest, Cumbria Forest in England.  In addition Mona’s Sustainable photography work was up at the famous Rockefeller Center for the month of April 2022, celebrating Earth Day with 193 Artworks were made into eco-friendly flags, a temporary art installation, to represent “Only one Earth” a theme of the Stockholm 50 conference on World Environment Day. The Flag project was a UNEP partnership with the Climate museum, and Rockefeller Center New York, bringing the community of artist of all ages and disciplines together. 

 

Currently Mona resides in the Fort Point artist community, at Midway studios. She exhibits at the Midway Gallery, FPAC gallery, and at the Envoy Gallery, and has been involved in open studios since 2015. Mona has evolved as a photographer along the various stages in her life. Today, she continues to working as an artists, conceptually, creatively, ethically, sustainably. Her sustainable methods and exclusive use of Bamboo and natural papers, handmade reclaimed, barn wood and bamboo frames, through out her 20 year career is a what makes it sustainable. Some have said, coining the word" Sustainable Photography" is something to be said about her work and dedication through the years.  She’s partnered with the Arbor Day Foundation and sterling planet since 2009, planting trees and offsetting CO2 through Wind Power. She continues to pursue her passion through her perspective, reflecting her process, in photographs and in her lifestyle.