Ramak Bamzar (b. 1980, Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Australian visual artist and photographer based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Her practice explores memory, identity, and the ways personal and political histories continue to inhabit the body. Working primarily with staged portraiture and installation, she combines contemporary photography with textiles, domestic objects, and reflective surfaces to create images that move between intimacy and distance.

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After moving to Australia, Bamzar’s work increasingly focused on the experience of living between places – building an everyday life while remaining emotionally connected to events unfolding elsewhere. Her portraits often exist alongside archival or symbolic imagery, allowing individual presence and collective memory to occupy the same space. Rather than documenting events directly, she is interested in how they are carried, remembered, and felt over time.

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Her ongoing project The Body as Revolution brings together portraiture and installation to consider how memory, absence, and displacement are held within ordinary lives. The subjects in her photographs are often friends, members of the Iranian diaspora, or people connected through shared experience. Stillness, pauses, and moments of quiet attention form a central part of her visual language.

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Bamzar has exhibited her work in Australia, and her photographs frequently form part of larger installations concerned with distance, migration, and emotional inheritance. Alongside her artistic practice, she works in arts education while completing a Master of Teaching.