Samira Eskandarfar, photographer, filmmaker, painter, and writer, was born in Tehran. In 2001, she received her bachelor's degree in material engineering from Imam Khomeini International University of Qazvin. She went to Tehran University of Art and continued her studies in animation directing. After graduation, she created artworks in the mediums of photography, photo, and video art and exhibited her works continuously.

The first solo exhibition of this artist was held in Tehran's Laleh Gallery in 2001 with the title "The Remainder of the Day." She had her second solo exhibition in Tehran's Azad Gallery a year later. After that, she continued collaborating with these two galleries in her following shows. Eskandarfar has also pursued filmmaking in parallel with the fields above and has two feature films and eighteen short films in her portfolio. She made her first feature film called "Root Canal" in 2013.

She has a psychological approach in the portraits she paints of women and girls, and her artworks explore the psychological worlds and human emotions; in this respect, they remind the works of the English painter Lucian Freud. She adds to the psychological aspect of her portraits with the exaggerations and deformations she creates in the proportions of the facial parts, such as the eyes, nose, and jaw. A trait that in another period of her artworks, by putting a mask on women's faces, takes a psychotic form and extends this concern to the boundaries of female identity.