[2025] Royal Sofa
[2023] Eyes Dazzle As They Search for The Truth
[2023] Ashes and Snow
August 2026:
Photobook, Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth
Feburary 10 – May 25, 2026
Community, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
December 1 – December 7, 2025
Solo Exhibition, Fonderia 20.9, Verona, Italy
November 24, 2025
Reviewer, Photoworks Portfolio Surgeries
November 20, 2025
Essay, No Country for Old Men, Photowork Annual #32
August 29 – November 9, 2025
Documents, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
This is southwestern Khuzestan, with its three rivers and oil refinery, after the sound of the fidoos and before the unforgiving heat of its noontime sun. Khuzestan is Iran's most ancient region and the birthplace of its nation. It is a region blessed and cursed by its wealth of oil and natural gas, pillaged in an eight-year war with neighboring Iraq and crushed under the weight of the sanctions and an ineffective government. The local population is made up of Lurs, Iranian Arabs, Qashqai people, Afshars, indigenous Persians, Iranian Armenians, and the Bakhtiari people. Khuzestan has excellent potential for agricultural expansion, which is almost unrivaled by the country's other provinces. Significant and permanent rivers flow over the entire territory, contributing to the fertility of the land. Karun, Iran's most effluent river, 850 kilometers long, flows into the Persian Gulf through this province. The agricultural potential of most of these rivers, particularly in their lower reaches, is hampered by the fact that their waters carry salt, which increases as the rivers flow away from the source mountains and hills. During the Iran–Iraq War, Khuzestan was the focus of the Iraqi invasion of Iran, leading to the flight of thousands of the province's residents. As a result, Khuzestan suffered the heaviest damage of all Iranian provinces during the war.
What used to be Iran's largest refinery at Abadan was destroyed, never to be fully recovered. Many of the famous Nakhlestans (palm groves) were annihilated, cities were destroyed, and historical sites were demolished. However, Khuzestan remains one of Iran's most hospitable regions. As the great poet Nizami said, "Her lips aflow with sweet sugar, the sweet sugar that aflows in Khuzestan."