The Lut Desert, in southeastern Iran, is a vast expanse of sand dunes, salt flats and extraordinary rock formations known as kaluts, sculpted over thousands of years by wind. It is also one of the hottest places on Earth: in 2005, NASA satellites recorded a ground surface temperature of 70.7°C there. Since 2016, it has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
On its edge lies the city of Bam, once a crossroads on the Silk Road trade routes between East and West.
In this series, Tahmineh Monzavi photographs this extreme, almost unreal landscape, where silence, light and matter seem to belong to another world.
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