Pouya Bahrami was born in 1982 from religious minority and political activists’ parents In ‎Tehran. His childhood was spent during the Iraq-Iran war. ‎ Pouya Bahrami learned the basics of photography (Analog) from his father. Pouya ‎Bahrami started working as a journalist and news-photographer for Sobhe-Emrouz and ‎Aftab-e-Yazd newspapers in Tehran, when he was 17 years old. Pouya was attending the ‎university as well but after three semesters, because his journalist works and article, he ‎was denied continuing his education because he was accused of gatherings and collusion ‎against the Iranian Islamic regime, propaganda against the regime and leader, and ‎insulting Islam and Islamic sanctities.‎ Pouya Bahrami spent 13 years in prison and exile in Iran. Pouya Bahrami is living in ‎Germany since 2015. He has been involved with the projects in the documentation center ‎of topography-of-terror and this is his first exhibition in Germany.‎