Credits

Photo credits

With thanks to the photographers who publish their work under open licences. Most of the documentary images on this site come from Solmaz Daryani’s long-term project on Lake Urmia and the Hamoun wetlands.

A man and a boy stand beside a fishing boat stranded on dry land where the Hamoun wetland used to be.

Hamoun wetlands, Sistan

Solmaz Daryani · CC BY-SA 4.0

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A group of people walk across dry ground near the receding shore of Lake Urmia.

Lake Urmia

Solmaz Daryani · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Lake Urmia seen from the International Space Station: red and pink brine surrounded by white salt flats.

Lake Urmia from orbit

NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domain

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Two women in long veils walk under tamarisk trees in a village covered by wind-blown sand.

Hamoun, Iran–Afghanistan border

Solmaz Daryani · CC BY-SA 4.0

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An abandoned greenhouse, its plastic torn to shreds, half-buried in sand.

Hamoun region

Solmaz Daryani · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Colourful pedal boats sit on a salt crust beside a shrinking pool of reddish water at Lake Urmia.

Lake Urmia

Solmaz Daryani · CC BY-SA 4.0

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The moon rises over the salt flats of Lake Urmia at dusk; small figures stand at the water’s edge.

Lake Urmia at dusk

Solmaz Daryani · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Images have been resized and cropped for the web. Adapted versions of CC BY-SA 4.0 works are available under the same licence.