Sinna Nasseri (born in Los Angeles, CA) is an American photographer. His work focuses on documentary photography and portraiture, and it appears frequently in the New York Times and Vogue.
Nasseri attended Fordham University School of Law. Until 2017, Nasseri was a lawyer for Latham & Watkins. Born in Los Angeles, he is of Iranian descent.
In 2020, eight of NasseriâÂÂs photo essays were published by Vogue documenting the ways Americans responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the 2020 presidential election. In 2021, NasseriâÂÂs photographs of a Stop the Steal rally in Arizona were used in the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. In 2022, Nasseri was commissioned by Vogue to photograph the Met Gala, themed âÂÂIn America: An Anthology of Fashion.â In 2023, New York Times published NasseriâÂÂs âÂÂPlane Spottersâ photo series.
The New York TimesâÂÂs article âÂÂ2023 in Retrospect: 59 Photographs That Defined the Year in Artsâ included six photographs by Nasseri. Images included portraits of Michelle Williams, Henry Diltz, and John Stamos, documentation of the Oscar Nominees Luncheon, and the âÂÂPlane Spottersâ photo series.
The GuardianâÂÂs article âÂÂThe photographs that defined 2023 â and the stories behind themâ included NasseriâÂÂs documentation of Burning Man.