BABAK MANI is a photographer based in Paris.

There’s something sacred about capturing a moment when someone truly sees themselves. In the portrait and fashion work of Babak, the attempt is always for a quiet connection, something that might become visual poetry, where feeling takes form and presence becomes timeless.

Faces appear not just as they are, but as they are remembered, soft traces of light, thought, and emotion. Within each portrait, there is a silent devotion to the inner world of women. Their presence is layered, complex, at once delicate and unyielding. The feminine is not a subject, but a force, unfolding through expression, gesture, and atmosphere. Her identity lives beneath the visible, woven into silence, strength, vulnerability, and the things she chooses to withhold. Their stories are told without words.

Form and texture follow emotion. What is worn is never incidental, it shapes how emotion lives within the frame. Garments move not as objects, but as expressions—quiet extensions of feeling. In this way, fashion becomes part of the portrait’s language, revealing presence through form and atmosphere.

The result is a kind of stillness that lingers, drawing the viewer inward. There is no insistence, no noise. Just the suggestion of something deeper, a gaze, a presence, a space between.
Timeless in its elegance, yet awake to the present, the work leaves behind more than an image, it leaves a feeling.