Maryam (Nilu) Ghasempour Siahgaldeh is an Iranian artist and researcher working with documentary and conceptual photography, and an MFA candidate in Photography at Kansas State University. Her work explores migration, memory, gender, and survival through photography, archival materials, and research-based practice. Before moving to the United States, she documented everyday life in northern Iran, focusing on women, social justice, and lived experience under political restriction. Shaped by migration and exile, her current work examines displacement, belonging, and resistance across borders. Through layered images and long-term projects, she revisits personal and collective histories while documenting life in the United States from the perspective of someone unable to return home.
