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About Saba Saremi

Photographer, visual designer and art director based in Turin. About ten years of images for brands, now designing for screens too.

Background

  1. 2026Photographer, Eliuot · Turin
  2. 2024 – nowUX/UI design: independent and certification projects · Turin
  3. 2023 – nowOperations manager and team lead, GrowtHub · Tirana (remote)
  4. 2022 – 2023Team leader and office manager, Val Metal · Turin
  5. 2019 – 2021Freelance graphic designer, Barton Photographer · Pinerolo
  6. 2018 – 2019Photography and post-production intern, Luzzitelli Danieli Productions (Italdesign) · Turin
  7. 2018Campaign photographer, K-WAY · Turin
  8. 2017Photographer, Fabi Shoes with IAAD · Turin
  9. 2017Photographer, IAAD Fashion Show · Turin
  10. 2015 – 2017Junior art director, Sam Tahrir Co. · Tehran

Education

  1. 2026Google UX Design Professional Certificate · Coursera
  2. 2026Figma UI/UX Design, Essentials and Advanced · Udemy
  3. 2018Master in Photography for Communication · IAAD, Turin
  4. 2016Master in Visual Communication · Islamic Azad University, Tehran
  5. 2010Bachelor’s degree in Graphics · Tehran

Exhibitions

  1. 2014Group photography exhibition, Niavaran Cultural Center · Tehran
  2. 2008Solo photography exhibition, Nikol Art Gallery · Tehran
Portrait of Saba Saremi

Open to new projects and collaborations

Let’s make something together.

Photographer and visual designer in Turin, now designing for screens too.

K-WAY

The K in K-WAY is a letter you both see and hear.

A standing model beside a performer in a handstand, beneath the WAY logotype
Two performers in a shared headstand with legs raised
Four performers supporting a headstand together

What if people became the logo?
A black-and-white series where the human body forms the K of K-WAY.

Gloved hands forming a K across a model's face
Model turning away, both arms outstretched in black K-WAY gloves
Model raising both arms in knitted K-WAY gloves to form a K
Model in a K-WAY beanie forming a K with her hands in the woods
Two models in the woods forming the K with their arms beneath the WAY logotype

Brand: K-WAY (BasicNet Group)
Developed with: BasicNet at Basic Village, Turin
In collaboration with: IAAD — Istituto d'Arte Applicata e Design, Turin
Services: Concept, art direction, photography, post-production
Year: 2018

The K in K-WAY is a letter you both see and hear. Developed from a brief between IAAD Turin and BasicNet at Basic Village, the concept takes that letter out of the logo and hands it to the human body. Through hands, arms and whole figures, each model becomes the K, while the frame keeps only ·WAY, so the viewer completes the brand name on their own. Shot in black and white with a young, diverse cast, Generation shows how one letter can move in many different ways. From the first idea to the final retouched frame, one process.

IAAD
FASHION
SHOW

IAAD's fashion show at Torino Design of the City, 13 October 2017.

Model in a white robe backstage beside a rail with her casting card
A casting card pinned above a rail, a model checking her phone below
Model in a white sweatshirt waiting beside the rails
Dressers fitting a pale ruffled garment on a model
White sculptural gown with a hood on the runway

Backstage during fitting, then the catwalk.

Two models in black open-weave cage garments on the runway
Black and white asymmetric column dress on the runway
Sequinned Union Jack dress with blue thigh-high boots
Black mini dress wrapped in printed ribbon on the runway
The full line of models walking the finale in white and black

Event: IAAD fashion show
Torino Design of the City
Date: 13 October 2017
Venue: ex Borsa Valori, Via San Francesco da Paola 28, Turin
Services: Backstage and catwalk photography, post-production

A student fashion show staged in Turin's former stock exchange. Coverage begins backstage during the fittings, among the rails and casting cards, follows the collection onto the catwalk, and ends with every frame finished in post-production. Reportage and runway photography told as one continuous story, from the first fitting to the final image.

Italdesign

Concept car photography at Italdesign, Turin, 2017.

The car on set in the studio, softbox lights around it and the camera tethered to a tablet
Slim LED headlight cut into the yellow bodywork

Light shaped around surfaces built to reflect everything.

Flush door handle on the yellow door, below the dark glass
Door mirror on a slim stalk against the side glass
Tinted glass curving into the yellow roofline
Rear quarter window in its black frame, with a small chrome badge
The full car in profile on cracked desert ground, dunes and mountains behind

Studio: Luzzitelli Danieli Productions, Turin
Location: Italdesign, Turin
Subject: Concept car
Year: 2017
Services: Automotive photography, lighting, retouching, post-production

A concept car photographed at Italdesign for Luzzitelli Danieli Productions, then retouched frame by frame. Lit for the car's lines, reflections controlled on set, finished in Photoshop. One process, from capture to final file.

Eliuot

A Persian court, retold with Turin marionettes.

A detail from the Eliuot shoot at Specht Residenzen
A second detail from the Eliuot shoot
The model in an Eliuot look beside a Lupi marionette

The rebellious women of the Qajar court, staged beside the Lupi family's marionettes.

The Eliuot collection photographed in the rooms of Specht Residenzen
An Eliuot look with a Lupi marionette
An Eliuot look, full figure
The model and the marionettes in a wide frame at Specht Residenzen
An Eliuot look in the historic interior
A closing portrait from the Eliuot series

Brand: Eliuot
Collection: Rebellious Women of the Qajar Court
Fashion designer: Elham Khezripour
Marionettes: Daniele Lupi, La Famiglia Lupi
Organised by: Swann Art Gallery and Specht Residenzen Torino
Location: Specht Residenzen, Turin
Year: 2026
Services: Fashion photography, lighting, retouching, post-production

Two traditions meet in one collection. Eliuot's Rebellious Women of the Qajar Court draws on the women who challenged the Persian court, and presents them beside the marionettes of the Lupi family, puppet makers in Turin since 1818. Photographed at Specht Residenzen, the series holds both worlds in the same frame: the collection on the model, the marionettes as her cast. A story from nineteenth-century Persia, told on a Turin stage.

Chiara

Light, fabric and a body, in black and white.

Chiara, head bowed, the bob haircut hiding half her face
Seated on a parquet floor in a white linen shirt and wide trousers

A personal study after Richard Avedon: a plain wall, a few props, and the person at the centre of the frame.

Seated backwards on a wooden chair in white linen
Behind a wooden chair, arms crossed, looking into the lens
Leaning back on a chair, legs raised
Leaning on a classical column in black lace
Lying across a column laid on the floor
Arched backwards over a chair in a grey dress

Project: Personal work
Model and styling: Chiara Lezzi
Location: Studio, Turin
Year: 2019
Services: Portrait and fashion photography, lighting, black-and-white editing, retouching

A personal shoot from 2019, made while studying Richard Avedon's studio portraits: a bare background, a chair, a column, and nothing else to look at but the person. Chiara Lezzi styled her own looks in white linen, black lace and a grey dress. The work was in the lighting, set to shape the face, the body and the fabric, and in a black-and-white edit that keeps the tones clean.

Cresima

A day of confirmation, under baroque gold.

The baroque nave of the Church of Saint Veranus during the Cresima
The procession with the cross and candles

A Cresima in the Church of Saint Veranus, photographed for Barton Photographer.

Families in the pews, watching the ceremony
The bishop anoints a confirmand with chrism, the sponsor's hand on her shoulder
The altar seen wide, with the bishop at the centre
An elderly woman among the congregation
The priest drinking from the chalice

Client: Barton Photographer, Pinerolo
Ceremony: Cresima (Confirmation)
Location: Church of Saint Veranus, Pinerolo
Year: 2019
Role: Photographer
Services: Event photography, editing, post-production

A Cresima is a short ceremony made of small moments: a procession of candles, a hand on a shoulder, a cross of oil on the forehead, a family leaning in to see. The work followed the day from the first steps down the aisle to the chalice, staying quiet and close. Photographed and edited for Barton Photographer, a studio based in Pinerolo.

Fabi Shoes

Glam rock as a mood, not a costume.

Pink studded suede sandals in their shoebox, a hand lifting them out
Behind the scenes: a model with legs raised against the white studio wall, the photographer shooting from the floor
A leg in teal tights kicked up, pink studded heel against a red backdrop

A bold era, translated gently for classic shoes.

Legs in burgundy tights and teal studded sandals on a red backdrop
Pink tights and teal studded heels crossing on a yellow backdrop
Teal tights and pink studded heels mid-step on red
Pink tights and black studded sandals on tiptoe against yellow

Brand: Fabi (Fabi Group, Monte San Giusto)
In collaboration with: IAAD — Istituto d'Arte Applicata e Design, Turin
Theme: Glam rock
Year: 2017
Services: Concept, art direction, lighting, product photography, post-production

Two choices shaped this series for Fabi, a Marche shoemaker since 1965. First, how loud to play glam rock: the era was bold, the shoes were refined, so the theme lives in coloured gels, saturated backdrops and playful socks, never in the product itself. Second, full figure or detail: with designs this intricate, the camera moves in close and the model steps out of frame. The result keeps the attitude in the atmosphere and the elegance in the shoe.