Kaveh Rostamkhani was born in Teheran but grew up in Germany. Even before he began studying photojournalism and documentary photography at a college in Hanover, Rostamkhani was working as an agency photographer. In the middle of his studies he changed to the University of Wales, Newport, where he graduated. In addition to personal projects and commissioned assignments for various newspapers and magazines, Rostamkhani works as a free-lance photographer for a number of publications and NGOs. Rostamkhani lives in Berlin.