I live in northern Iran, in one of the rare places with forests and a suitable climate in Iran. When I was a child, I always saw people with different clothing styles, languages, and sometimes different faces in my hometown, and the people in my town did not always look at them with a positive attitude. Years later, when I heard about the 120-day storms in Sistan and became aware of climate change, I realized that they are migrants who, as a result of climate change and the onset of drought, have migrated from central and eastern regions of Iran to my city.
Over the past 10 years, I have documented climate change in Iran and its effects on human life. The project is composed of various small stories and projects, by traveling to different regions of Iran.I have witnessed the lives of the last survivors in semi-desolate villages on the shores of the dried Hamoon lake, I saw the effect of internal migration of more than 400,000 inhabitants due to drought and sandstorms, as well as the lives of more than 120,000 people in Iran’s largest informal settlement on the outskirts of Chabahar. I have also documented environmental conflicts, such as flood and hunting and fire and their impact on people’s lives.
