Water scarcity and climate change have become among the most pressing environmental crises of our time, and Iran is no exception. Lake Urmia, once one of Iran’s most significant aquatic ecosystems, has experienced a dramatic decline in water levels in recent decades, leaving behind vast expanses of salt. What remains is not merely a change in the geography of a landscape, but a profound transformation in the relationship between humans, nature, and the environment.

Salt Wound is an exploration of these remnants, where water has receded and salt has taken its place like a wound across the land. Rather than approaching the subject solely as a historical or documentary record of an environmental crisis, I search through the salt flats, abandoned structures, and eroded traces of past life for signs of what once existed here.

Boats that can no longer move across the water, recreational spaces that have lost their purpose, houses and walls weathered by salt and wind, and other traces of human presence have become remnants of a broken relationship between people and this body of water. In these images, salt is not merely a natural element; it becomes a sign of absence, erosion, loss, and the consequences of human intervention in nature.

This project does not attempt to reconstruct the past or offer a definitive image of the future. *Salt Wound* is instead an encounter with what remains—with a landscape in which the absence of water has itself become a presence, revealing traces of a life that once existed here. Through these images, I search among these remnants for an understanding of the wounds left upon both nature and human life—wounds that may need to be seen before they disappear completely.