Using search categories based on age, profession, life plan, social background, etc. he made contact with a wide variety of women living temporarily or permanently in Berlin. Meeting them in settings chosen by the models themselves, Sahihi created a series of 375 portraits that was on display alongside corresponding questionnaires in the Galerie im Körnerpark and Springer Gallery in autumn and winter 2015–2016. The complete series was published by DISTANZ. Living in Berlin since 2013, "he encountered young, gay men that struck him as oddly familiar. They reminded him of New York in the 1980s, and of the search for new forms of identity. It seemed as if Berlin of the 2010s had replaced the old New York as the city of dreams." Remembering the old New York, a city marked by creativity and freedom but also hit by the HIV/AIDS epidemic that diminished "the creative community by what seemed like half of its most brilliant talents and ravaging its creative power," Sahihi created a series of nude photographs of the Beautiful Berlin Boys. The book was accompanied by an exhibition at Galerie Kehrer in Berlin. A selection of the portraits was reprinted in Benjamin Wolbergs' volume New Queer Photography, published by Kettler in 2020. The fascination with Barbara Hepworth's Hospital Drawings he shares with sports surgeon Hanno Steckel led to another series published by Kehrer. Sahihi's black and white photographs follow Steckel into The Operating Theatre, capturing the rhythmic play of hands and movements, thus tracing the similarities between artistic and surgical craftsmanship. In May 2019, Sahihi reenacted Leonardo da Vinci's famous Last Supper with friends and neighbors from Neuköllns Weserstraße neighborhood. Exhibitions 1999 MoMA PS1, New York City (Millenium Warm Up; group exhibition) 1999 353 Broadway, New York City (Quiet, an artificial society of people living under surveillance; group exhibition) 2000 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City (John Connelly Presents: Ashkan Sahihi (Scream, Faces)) 2000 Art Basel 31 (collaboration by Spex and Andrea Rosen Gallery (Drug Series, Kisses)) 2000–2001 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City (Scream) 2001 MoMA PS1, New York City (Drug Series) 2003 Axel Raben Gallery, New York City (Cum Shots) 2004 Axel Raben Gallery, New York City (Women of the IDF) 2005 Akureyri Art Museum; Akureyri, Iceland (100 Million in Cash) 2005 Akademie der Künste, Berlin (Drug Series, in: Der Kontrakt des Fotografen; group exhibition) 2006 KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin und MoMA PS1,