1991
THE BEGINNING
Born.
The story begins. There is no photograph here—and no substitute pretending to be one.
Gorgan, IranA PERSONAL ARCHIVE · 1991—?
I AM
HUMAN.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
I’m not only a founder.
I’m not only a marketer.
I’m not only a photographer.
I’m not only a traveller.
I’m not only a builder.
I’m not only one thing.
I’m a human being
collecting experiences.
collecting experiences.
A life,
still unfolding.
Not a résumé. Not the cleaned-up version. Just a sequence of questions, attempts, places, people, and changing directions.
EARLY
MEMORY, UNCATALOGUED
Things I remember.
Things I loved. Things I wanted. Things I was afraid of. Things I didn’t understand.
A space for memories, when I’m ready to add them.TEENAGE
BECOMING CURIOUS
Looking up. Looking closer.
Astronomy became an early way of asking bigger questions. Later, technology and images offered different ways to keep asking.
Curiosity before certainty2011
STUDY
Physics.
I studied the measurable world at the University of Guilan. The questions became more interesting than the answers.
University of Guilan · 2011–20152015
FIRST STUDIO
Making images with other people.
Daricheh Studio began with my sister, Samira—a place for portraits, children, families, and the quiet responsibility of preserving a moment.
Gorgan, Iran · 2015–20212016
STUDY, AGAIN
Philosophy of science.
At Amirkabir University, I moved from matter toward mind: philosophy of the brain, cognition, and the limits of what we know.
Tehran · 2016–20192018
THE FRAME MOVES
Film, editing, motion.
Photography became video. Video became editing. Editing became a way to discover that sequence can change meaning.
Commercial work, short films, experiments2021
A WIDER SYSTEM
From making content to building growth.
The work expanded into marketing, paid media, coaching, and the systems around an idea—not only the image at the end.
Cyprus and beyondNOW
STILL IN PROGRESS
Building, learning, changing.
Insight Media, Listlio, Evlek, and whatever comes after them. Some things become companies. Some remain experiments. All of them leave information behind.
2026 · Northern Cyprus35
CURRENT FRAME · 01HOSSEIN — TODAYTHIS IS ME TODAY.
I don’t have everything figured out.
I don’t think I’m supposed to. I’m interested in experiencing more, learning more, building more, and seeing where life takes me.
Things
I do.
I BUILD
Businesses, websites, products, systems, and ideas that need a first shape.
↗I CREATE
Films, photographs, campaigns, experiences—and sometimes just a useful draft.
↗I LEARN
Technology, business, AI, people, and the skills I do not have yet.
↗I EXPLORE
Places, cultures, unfamiliar roads, and versions of life outside the routine.
↗I EXPERIMENT
Ideas that might work. Ideas that might not. Both are worth observing.
↗I RIDE
Cycling, long roads, physical effort, movement, and a particular kind of freedom.
↗Things
I’ve built.
The interesting part is rarely the polished outcome. It is the distance between what I imagined and what actually happened.
BUILDING
Insight Media
VISIT SITE- WHAT IT IS
- A multidisciplinary media, technology, and growth company in Northern Cyprus.
- WHY I STARTED
- To move beyond passive marketing and connect story, systems, and measurable action.
- WHAT HAPPENED
- It keeps expanding into new disciplines, teams, problems, and responsibilities.
- WHAT I LEARNED
- A company is not one idea. It is a living agreement between people.
Things
I’ve learned.
Building something teaches you differently than studying it.
01Some ideas are better left as ideas.
02Failure is information—if I am honest enough to read it.
03Freedom matters more to me than looking successful.
04Things
I’ve seen.
A collection of moments I’ve decided not to forget. The archive is quiet for now. It will grow with real images, never borrowed memories.
IMAGE ARCHIVE
01 — 500
Waiting for the first frame.06 · CURRENT STATE
NOW
August 2026
Insight Media, Listlio, Evlek—and a better relationship with unfinished work.
AI systems, product thinking, and what happens when creative work becomes infrastructure.
Northern Cyprus by road, and the idea of travelling further by bicycle.
How much of identity is chosen, and how much is simply repeated.
Longer roads. New places. Fewer assumptions.
A more present, useful, curious human.
WHO AM I?
Good question.
FOUNDERCREATORPHOTOGRAPHERMARKETERBUILDERTRAVELLERCYCLISTEXPLORERLEARNERFRIENDSONBROTHER
HUMAN
Everything else is just context.
Not
yet.
These aren’t goals. They are experiences I want to have.
01Cycle across countries
02Travel slowly
03Camp beneath unfamiliar skies
04Learn skills I cannot name yet
05Live somewhere new
06Meet people outside my usual world
07Build something that changes me
WHAT’S NEXT?
2026202720282030?