Evidence Railroad

There are many kinds of documents. Some are born of chance, others prove a fact; some gain value over time, others establish ownership. This one is a legacy of 1888, when the first railway line in Iran, from Tehran to the shrine of Shah Abdol-Azim in Rey, was put into operation. It is the result of a sustained gaze along 14,087 kilometres of track, through glare and endurance, over long hours of unavoidable observation.

It is a document of earth and sky, land and water, life and death; of a land shaped by history and civilisation, political turning points and culture, reality and imagination. Through hundreds of photographs taken from a train window, it offers a direct, unfiltered view of the land and sky we call home: Iran.