Jahan Ihsan

Jahan Brian Ihsan received his MA in Comparative Religion from Claremont School of Theology in 2019, and also holds a BA in English Literature from Marylhurst University. Formerly a Baha’i in South Carolina, he lived abroad as a representative travel teacher for his community throughout Latvia and Lithuania. He currently resides in Oregon with his young son. In Spring of 2022, he published, Portland Witch House, a memoir relating the self to his twelve-year photographic study of ‘countercultural’ personae-subjects who often engaged in outsider religion and ritual-this study was documented using antique and vintage film cameras. His ongoing studies include Carl Jung, Roger Caillois, Georges Bataille, Rene Girard, and transgressive methods of the sacred.