Tahir Baghirov was born in the village of Sheki, Zangezur district, Western Azerbaijan. Since 1975, he has worked as a lighting engineer at the “Azerbaijanfilm” film studio. He worked as a lighting engineer in the TV series “Count Krestovsky” (2004, Russia, director: Ramiz Fataliyev) and the film “Misunderstanding” (2017, Turkey, director Ulaş Cihan Şimşek) by foreign film producers. He is an Honored Worker of Culture (2017).