Clémence Polès Farhang is a Franco-Iranian photographer based in New York City. Raised between Sharjah and Dubai at the intersection of Arabic, Western, and Iranian cultures, she works primarily in portraiture and documentary, exploring identity, memory, and the intimate textures of everyday life, with a particular focus on women, ritual, and how culture is carried across displacement. Her commissions include Vogue, New York Magazine, Mother Tongue, FAR–NEAR, Acacia, and Anyone Girl.
In 2015, she began Passerby, an ongoing photographic and oral archive that has documented more than 300 women in their homes across New York, Paris, London, and Los Angeles. In 2026, the project became the subject of her first solo exhibition, Can I come over and take your picture?, curated by Nastasia Alberti at Slip House, New York. The show ran from February 16 to March 28, with coverage including the New York Times, The Guardian, and Service95.
She is currently developing Sofra, a photobook documenting Nowruz tables across Afghan, Iranian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tajik diaspora communities.
@clemencepolesfarhang cpfarhang@gmail.com