Tara Violet Niami

Tara Violet Niami was born in New York City to Ramin Niami (Manhattan by Numbers, Somewhere in the City) and Karen Robson (Picnic at Hanging Rock). She moved to Los Angeles, CA when she was in elementary school. In high school, she became passionate about photography and filmmaking. Born in 1993 in New York, Tara Violet Niami is a photographer and cinematographer from LA. She seeks to perplex and unsettle viewers with her work creating visual poetry. Tara has an MFA from American Film Institute Conservatory and a BFA in photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Tara has directed and shot short films Mirrors and Ghosts, The Sin, Liquid Damage, Impaired, and The Center Cannot Hold, Trapped, and Destroy My Beautiful Wickedness. Most recently she was the cinematographer of EYE WITHOUT A FACE and the production still photographer on the Focus Features film MUSTANG and Amir Naderi's film MAGIC LANTERN. The music video she directed for "Worth the Wait" by The Life of Riley (for the release of the film Shirin in Love) premiered on the Huffington Post. She has photographed for Rookie Magazine, headed by Tavi Gevinson and Anaheed Alani. She has been a still photographer on feature films Babe's and Ricky's Inn and Shirin in Love as well as on Burn Brightly a short film directed by Lauren Ludwig as a part of American Film Institute's Directing Women Workshop. Her work has been shown in group shows in London and Berlin been published in such publications as Elle France, Vanity Fair Spain, VICE, Le Monde, the book If You Leave covered by Dazed & Confused, and more.