My name is Morteza Eslahchi, but I go by Dr. Morty. In my everyday life, I work as a researcher and university lecturer, but photography has always been my greatest passion.
I have been photographing all my life. The first time I truly felt like a photographer was during a school trip when I was 12 years old. I borrowed my family’s camera and started photographing the people I saw along the way. My parents were not very pleased because I was not in a single photo myself. Many years later, I realized that what I had been intuitively drawn to is called street photography.
In 2001, I began taking photography more seriously. During a journalism course, I gained a deeper understanding of the medium, and after the course I bought the camera I could afford, a simple Russian Zenit.
I love analog photography and work with everything from 35mm and medium format to large format. For my personal projects, I shoot exclusively on film.
For commissioned work, I primarily use professional digital cameras, but I also offer timeless black and white analog photographs for those who want something truly unique.
When I photograph, whether it is a wedding, a portrait, or an event, I strive to capture more than what is merely visible. I want to capture the atmosphere in the room, the way the light falls across a space, the glances exchanged between people, and the small moments that often pass unnoticed. For me, photography is not just about documentation, but about preserving the feeling of a moment so that long afterward the image can still convey the same presence, atmosphere, and emotion that existed at that time.
Photographer: Mattias Häggström