Babak Salari (born March 21, 1959 in Shiraz) is Iranian-Canadian freelance photographer, based in Montreal, educated at Concordia University and Dawson College and specialized in black and white documentary photography.

Salari has been documenting the life of common people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Palestine, Israel, Mexico,Cuba, Bulgaria. Four of his projects has been published by publishing house Janet 45: Traumas and Miracles: Portraits of Northwestern Bulgaria (2010, in collaboration with Diana Ivanova), My Street: Cuban Stories (2010, in collaboration with Diana Ivanova), Remembering the People of Afghanistan (2009) and Faces, Bodies, Personas: Tracing Cuban Stories (2008).