Pearl of Iran

Farshid Tighehsaz

City: Tabriz
Country: Iran

Farshid is an Iranian freelance photojournalist. He was born and raised in city of Tabriz, and started to photograph in 2010. Farshid’s work have been published in local and international newspapers and magazines such as New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters, associated press, and Agence France-Press.

Statement:

Urmia lake is the world’s second largest brine lake which is located in north western Iran and in the region of Azerbaijan and its divided between east Azerbaijan and west Azerbaijan. In 2002, drought began to threaten the Urmia lake and in 2014, the dryness of the lake has been announced to be more than 75%. The reason this drought is not revengeful character of nature but only the nature of human irresponsibility. By well diggings, by buildings dams on rivers that used to pour into the lake, by throwing stones into the depth of lake’s heart, we have narrowed the breathing of the lake.