This photographic long-term ongoing project invites you to discover the work of a Swiss photographer living in Southern Iran, fascinated by this little known and poorly understood country. Neither the portrait of a place nor a documentary – although never staged – it is a voluntarily non-political body of work:...
Jalal Shamsazaran: Without Hamoun
Hamoun has been dried and the wind blows everywhere. These days, Iranian people are dealing with environmental and economic problems. Climate changes, drought, reduction of raining, governmental mismanagement and drying the lakes and wetlands are the most important problems. Sistan in Southeast of Iran and in the boundary of Afghanistan...
Mohammad Baghal Asghari: Forgotten Dried Land
Iran is one of the country that will face with the problem of drought. The cities of this country, and especially its center, suffer from low rainfall and drought. Kerman province (11.5% of the country's total area) is one of these provinces and is located on the south east side of...
Mehrdad Afsari: Forty – A Treatise on Terrene Traverse
This project inspired by an ancient Persian Philosophers: Yahya ibn Habash Suhrawardi's treaties on "Light". Landscapes of different geographical areas in Iran have been photographed with medium format digital camera. Statement of the series is a retell text according to Suhrawardi's treaties: Where these two lines begin is a point...
Vali Mohseni: Choice
Addiction is the biggest crisis Iran has known since the Iran-Iraq war. This has social, economic and political consequences. 80% of Iranian prisoners are detained for drug consumption and 25 % of murders are caused by drug consumption. According to the ministry of health there are more than three million...
Solmaz Daryani: Hamoun Wetland to Wasteland
Iran is “water bankrupt,” and mainly suffering from a socio-economic drought, where water demand exceeds the natural water supply. My country is facing a serious and protracted water crisis and desertification as lakes and rivers once-fertile become barren. water shortages sparked protests in the south of Iran in the last...
Danial Khodaie: Silent Death
Since 2002, Khuzestan province of Iran has been engulfed by dust storms. This phenomenon is an environmental crisis and poses numerous health concerns for the citizens of Khuzestan. The main center of production of dust is from inside Iran,but dusts that are blown over from neighboring country-Iraq- exacerbates the conditions....
Adel Pazyar: Born of Die
80% of the genes of humans and mice are the same and 90% of genes that cause diseases are also common between human and mice. On the other hand, mice's small size, high reproduction, and low maintenance costs have caused that thousands of mice around the world are born to...
Jalal Shamsazaran: The Story of People Who Will no Longer Have a Lake
Urmia Lake, located in the northwestern Iran was the second largest salt lake in the world and the largest in the Middle East. The lake was protected as a national park by Iranian Department of Environment and it was one of the most famous international wetlands registered in The Ramsar...