Mehdi Moghimnejad, lecturer, researcher and Iranian contemporary photographer was born in 1976 in Babol. He has a bachelor's degree in graphic design (visual communication), a master's degree in photography and a doctorate in art studies from Tehran University of Arts (TUA).

Moghimnejad has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in photography, graphics and cinema since 2001 at universities such as Tehran University of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Tehran, Sooreh Institute of Higher Education and Faculty of Art and Architecture, Azad University. He became member of the Faculty of Visual Arts, Tehran University of Arts in 2010 with the rank of assistant professor.

Six books and more than one hundred articles on theoretical topics of art and photography have been published in Persian and English by Moghimnejad so far. Among his most famous books are translations of "Semiotics of Photography", "Art in the Digital Age" and authorship such as "Photography and Theory" and his selection of articles entitled "In Praise of the Real". He is also the compiler and translator of a book on contemporary American poetry entitled "Where the Sunset Delays" and the poet of the "The rain of jackal", which was nominated for the Ahmad Shamloo Poetry Award in 2017.

Moghimnejad’s world of photography can be described as a creative conversation with the history and culture of Iran. With a hyper-realistic and very personal photomontage method, which he named "Verisimilitudes", since 2001, he has tried to have a questioning and conceptual look at various aspects of Iranian history in various series. His constructed photographs are usually a combination of natural landscapes, especially deserts, ruins, and elements and symbols of Iranian culture.

So far, he has exhibited his works in four solo exhibitions in Barg Gallery (2002), Gallery No. 7 (2009), and Mohsen Gallery (2013 and 2014) and in more than fifty group exhibitions inside and outside Iran. Moghimnejad's works have been presented in various auctions and expos, and some of his works are kept in the permanent treasury of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts.