Photographin & Art
international mehrfach ausgezeichnet
Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) 2025 - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2025 - ND Awards 2025
Black & White Spider Awards 2025 - LONDON INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE COMPETITION (LICC) 2025
Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) 2025 - International Photography Awards (IPA) 2025 - ND Awards 2025
Black & White Spider Awards 2025 - LONDON INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE COMPETITION (LICC) 2025
Unter dem Künstlernamen ‚SchirZan‘ präsentiert Schahrsad Shahmirzadi ihre Photographien, insbesondere Architecture, Abstract, Nature & Wildlife. In dieser Rubrik erfährst du mehr über die Bedeutung ihres Künstlernamens, ihre künstlerische Vision, ihre Auszeichnungen und ihre aktuellen Projekte.

Photo: Steve Barret
Künstlername und Inspiration
Schahrsad Shahmirzadi veröffentlicht ihre Photographien & Art unter dem Künstlernamen „SchirZan“. Dieser Name stammt aus dem Persischen und setzt sich aus zwei Wörtern zusammen:
- Schir (shir, شیر) bedeutet „Löwe“
- Zan (زن) bedeutet „Frau“
Zusammengesetzt steht „SchirZan“ für „Löwenfrau“, „Löwin“ und dafür, mutig, den eigenen Weg zu gehen.
Außerdem steht „SchirZan“ dafür, sich für benachteiligte Menschen einzusetzen, ihre Stimmen sichtbar zu machen und für Gerechtigkeit, Gleichberechtigung und Menschlichkeit einzutreten.
Mit ihrer Photographie kann sie einen gelebten Moment für die Ewigkeit festhalten – ein Gedanke, der sie jedes Mal aufs Neue berührt.
Das Wort Photographie stammt aus dem Altgriechischen: φῶς, phōs, (Gen. φωτος, phōtos), „Licht“ und γράφειν, gráphein, „schreiben, zeichnen“ und heißt übertragen: „mit Licht zeichnen“.
An diese Herkunft knüpft sie mit der Schreibweise „Ph“ an. Indem sie konsequent „Photographie“ mit „ph“ schreibt, macht sie diese Verbindung zur Geschichte des Mediums sichtbar und betont, dass es ihr um bewusstes, künstlerisches Arbeiten mit Licht geht.

Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) 2025 – International Photography Awards (IPA) 2025 –
ND Awards 2025 – Black & White Spider Awards 2025
International Photography Awards (IPA) 2025
Der Wettbewerb verzeichnete über 14.000 Einreichungen aus mehr als 100 Ländern. SchirZan wurde in der Kategorie „Architecture / Abstract – Non-Professional“ mit einer Honorable Mention für „The Solitaire as an Abstraction“ ausgezeichnet.
- Direktlink:
https://www.photoawards.com/winner/zoom.php?eid=8-1722606309-25 - Übersicht Honorable Mentions (Student/Non-Professional) 2025:
https://photoawards.com/winner/hmention.php?compName=IPA%202025&level=student
Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) 2025 – Architecture Photography MasterPrize (APMP)
Internationaler Wettbewerb mit Sitz in den USA für Architektur, Innenarchitektur, Produktdesign und Architekturphotographie. Eine internationale Fachjury bewertet photographische Arbeiten in Kategorien für Professionals und Studierende.
- Winner in „Other Exterior (Student)“ für die Serie „The Solitaire as Abstraction – In Harmony with Nature“ (aus 72 Ländern):
https://architectureprize.com/winners/winner.php?id=8533 - Honorable Mention in „Sustainable Interior“ für die Serie „Steps of Sustainability“, die die drei Dimensionen der Nachhaltigkeit (Ökologie, Ökonomie, Soziales) visuell zusammenführt:
https://architectureprize.com/winners/winner.php?id=12441&mode=hm&compID=12816 - Übersicht Photography-MasterPrize-Gewinner (Students, 2025):
https://architectureprize.com/winners/2025_photo_s.php
ND Awards 2025 – 12th Annual Photography Contest
Globaler Wettbewerb mit einer Jury aus Galerieinhaber:innen, Verleger:innen, Bildredakteur:innen und etablierten Photograph:innen.
- Honorable Mention in „Architecture / Others – Non-Professional“ für „The Solitaire as an Abstraction“ (gekürzte Version):
https://ndawards.net/winners-gallery/nd-awards-2025/non-professional/other/hm/23252/ - Übersicht aller Honorable Mentions (Non-Professional, 2025):
https://ndawards.net/winners-gallery/nd-awards-2025/non-professional/honorable-mentions/
Black & White Spider Awards 2025 – 20th Edition
Auswahl aus ca. 6.000 Einreichungen aus 64 Ländern. Jury u. a. mit Vertreter:innen der Tate Modern, Sotheby’s, Serpentine Galleries, Artnet, Ogilvy und Financial Times.
- 1× Honorable Mention (Amateur) in „Architectural“ für „Architectural Piano“
- 3× Nominee (Amateur):
- „Architectural Piano“ (Architectural)
- „Black & White Solitaire“ (Abstract)
- „Columns in the Here and Now“ (Architectural)
- Galerie Architektur-Sektion:
https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/20th/amateur/architectural - Galerie Abstract-Sektion:
https://www.thespiderawards.com/gallery/20th/amateur/abstract
London International Creative Competition (LICC) 2025
Mehrere tausend Einreichungen aus über 80 Ländern. Der Wettbewerb ist genreübergreifend angelegt und umfasst mit „Shoot (Photo/Video)“ eine gemeinsame Kategorie für Fotografie und Video.
Shortlist (2×):
- „The Solitaire as an Abstraction (Revised)“ –
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=125857 - „The Solitaire as an Abstraction – New Perspectives“ –
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=125858
Official Selection (6×):
- „The Dignity of the Animal is Inviolable“ –
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37357-25&OS=true - „Blessed Are Those Who Mourn“ –
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37355-25&OS=true - „Prismatic Berlin“ –
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37342-25&OS=true - „Transformer“ –
https://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37351-25&OS=true - „Architectural Piano“ –
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37822-25&OS=true - „Between Space and Time“ –
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37352-25&OS=true - Übersicht Shortlist 2025:
https://www.licc.uk/winners/shortlist.php?comp_name=LICC%202025 - Übersicht Official Selection 2025:
https://www.licc.uk/winners/officialselection.php?comp_name=LICC%202025









Winner - Architecture Photography MasterPrize (APMP) 2025 – Student
This series transforms a singular urban facade into an abstract statement of individuality and harmony with nature. Each image explores a different facet of geometry, light, and perspective—revealing how architectural form merges with the sky and environment. The interplay of crisp lines, shifting shadows, and subtle reflections allows the “solitaire” to oscillate between material precision and poetic abstraction. Through minimalism and rhythmic composition, the viewer is invited to discover not only the structure’s inner order but also its unexpected dialogue with the natural world.







Winner - Architecture Photography MasterPrize (APMP) 2025 – Student
Steps of Sustainability
This series transforms the stairwell of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Consumer Protection (MLEUV) of the State of Brandenburg in Potsdam into a paradigm of sustainable architecture: Meditative compositions visualize ecological responsibility, resource-efficient construction, and architectural innovation. Transitions and Braille detail highlight the impact on environmental awareness, social inclusion, and climate action. Each step represents ecological, economic, and social change in our society toward a better world.

Honorable Mention Recipient, International Photography Awards (IPA) 2025 – Non-Professional
The solitaire as an abstraction: This series captures the modern architecture of an urban facade in a dynamic interplay of light and shadow. Clear lines, geometric structures, and unusual perspectives emphasize the building’s aesthetic and energy. Particularly fascinating is the way geometry interacts with the environment: reflections and contrasts between architecture and sky add depth to the photographs and invite viewers to explore. Through carefully chosen angles and framing, both the rigor and the lightness of the architecture are revealed.
Personal Note: The Solitaire as an Abstraction was created on Father’s Day, May 29, 2025, in Berlin-Halensee and is dedicated to my father, K. Shahmirzadi.

Honorable Mention Recipient, ND Awards 2025 – Non-Professional
„The solitaire as an Abstraktion“ (Architecture – Other)
The solitaire as an abstraction This series captures the modern architecture of an urban facade in a dynamic interplay of light and shadow. Clear lines, geometric structures, and unusual perspectives emphasize the building’s aesthetic and energy.
Particularly fascinating is the way geometry interacts with the environment: reflections and contrasts between architecture and sky add depth to the photographs and invite viewers to explore. Through carefully chosen angles and framing, both the rigor and the lightness of the architecture are revealed.

Black & White Spider Awards 2025
Honorable Mention & Nominee Recipient, Black & White Spider Awards 2025

Nominee Recipient, Black & White Spider Awards 2025



This series was honored at the International Photography Awards (IPA) 2025 and the ND Awards 2025 (Short Version) and is now presented in a revised form for LICC. It captures modern urban architecture playing with light and shadow. Clear lines, geometric structures, and unique perspectives emphasize energy and aesthetics. Reflections and contrasts between building and sky add depth and invite discovery; carefully chosen angles reveal both rigor and lightness.
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=125857

This further development of the award-winning series (IPA 2025 & ND Awards 2025, short version) enters into a deeper dialogue with atmosphere, sky, and clouds. Revised for LICC, it explores modern urban architecture through dynamic light and shadow. Unique perspectives reveal how geometry interacts with environmental elements, adding visual depth and inviting viewers to discover new connections.
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=125858

This series marks a personal transformation. Meeting the lion at Berlin Zoo, I saw not an exhibit but a being whose silent, dignified gaze pierced every barrier. Through my lens, individuality and longing for freedom took form. These images challenge zoos as relics of control, urging a shift—from display to care, from captivity to wild protection. His gaze remains: dignity that nothing can confine.
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37357-25&OS=true

„Blessed Are Those Who Mourn” translates the Beatitudes into monumental architecture. Bathed in light, columns frame reliefs whose ancient words evoke comfort and justice. Hope emerges in the interplay of light and shadow, turning each façade into a timeless sign. The architecture forms a bridge between biblical promise and contemporary experience, making comfort and hope sensually tangible within today’s urban space—all captured exactly as seen, with every photograph in the series shown unedited and as originally taken, centered on: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37355-25&OS=true

In “Transformer,” urban spaces are transformed through reflections and distortions: facades dissolve and the recurring red crane, as a central motif, links abstract lines and patterns, symbolizing urban transformation and constant change. Architecture appears to flow; familiar settings are reimagined as kaleidoscopic, shifting projections. All images are unedited (except occasional cropping), so viewers encounter authentic moments of metamorphosis: the familiar becomes a sign of radical change, merging reality and abstraction into new perspectives on urban transformation.

In the reflection of puddles, reality and illusion merge, stillness and movement intertwine. The clock, a symbol of time, appears alienated and distant—as if suspended in its own in-between space. In the reflections of the medical center, an almost new space unfolds—a threshold between illness and recovery, between reality and perception.
This photo series explores the fragile boundary between perception and memory, between what is tangible and what, in the very act of seeing, is already beginning to dissolve—and reminds us that healing cannot exist without space and time.
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37352-25&OS=true

This series abstracts a modern facade, where vertical windows appear like the keys of a piano. Rhythm, repetition, and the precise alignment of window axes create a powerful graphic score, echoing the structure of a musical composition. Each photo explores geometry, light, and shadow with meticulous control, while black and white intensify tonal contrasts and reveal every nuance of form. The building becomes visual music—an architectural piano that invites viewers to sense the city’s resonance in lines, surfaces, and variations, transforming an ordinary facade into an impressive musical work.
http://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37822-25&OS=true

In “Transformer,” urban spaces are transformed through reflections and distortions: facades dissolve and the recurring red crane, as a central motif, links abstract lines and patterns, symbolizing urban transformation and constant change. Architecture appears to flow; familiar settings are reimagined as kaleidoscopic, shifting projections. All images are unedited (except occasional cropping), so viewers encounter authentic moments of metamorphosis: the familiar becomes a sign of radical change, merging reality and abstraction into new perspectives on urban transformation.
https://www.licc.uk/winners/winner.php?id=2-37351-25&OS=true
Titelfoto des Newsletters des Ministeriums für Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft , Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Brandenburg (MLEUV), Juli 2025

Schahrsad Shahmirzadis Photo von leuchtendem Mohn vor moderner Architektur erschien als Titelbild im Newsletter des Ministeriums für Land- und Ernährungswirtschaft, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Brandenburg (MLEUV), Juli 2025.
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Nature & Landscape
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Wildlife
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Creative
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Peace
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Urban
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Macro
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Black & White
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