Gohar Dashti, Iranian photographer and video artist, was born in Ahvaz in 1980. She received her bachelor's degree in photography from Tehran University of Art in 2003 and graduated from the same university with a master's degree in 2005.

During her professional career, which began in the early 2000s, Dashti has participated in many group and individual exhibitions inside and outside of Iran, and won several international awards, including the DAAD Award, Berlin, Germany in 2009 and the Visiting Arts, Bradford, London in 2011. This artist held her first solo exhibition in 2006 at the Silk Road Gallery.

Gohar Dashti, with having the experience of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war as a child, has spent 12 years of her photographic journey recording subjects with a sociological perspective and has turned to large-scale and staged photography to better achieve this goal. One of her most well-known works is the collection called "War and Life Today", which was created in 2008 and was exhibited in the "Tragedies of War" in 2013. From 1800 to 2014" group exhibition in the Louvre-Lens Museum, France.

Since the 2010s, Dashti has taken a personal approach in recording subjects and has moved towards photographing nature and plants in her later works. Gohar Dashti is also engaged in curatorial work to introduce contemporary Iranian photography, and has exhibited several photography exhibitions outside of Iran.