Jahan Saber (b. 1990, Vienna) began his career in photography in 2013. After several years in commercial photography, he shifted entirely toward analogue processes. His practice explores materiality, writing, architecture, and design, drawing heavily on the analog workflow and on revisiting methods of craftsmanship that reveal how human technology has, in many ways, entered a period of diminishing returns. He also writes poetry and continually investigates the relationship between writing and photography as a central part of his artistic methodology.

Saber’s work often appears allegorical to past forms of design and stylistic approaches, suggesting that modernism has in many ways failed humanity by promoting an increasingly clinical, inorganic environment. His artistic research addresses how contemporary systems—urban, technological, and aesthetic—shape human experience. In his short film Highly Sensitive Material, for example, he examines how cities are constructed not to foster human flourishing but generate psychological overload and chronic stress.

He is the co-founder and co-publisher of Good News – An Ideal Photographic Journal and works extensively with analogue techniques, particularly film development and darkroom hand-printing. His expertise has also led him to teach as a Leica Academy Tutor.

Saber is currently studying Fine Arts and Photography at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.