These photographs were taken with Kurdish Kurmanj nomads who still migrate across Iran’s Khorasan plain, moving flocks between the desert fringe and the Aladagh foothills. Most families now camp only part-time, but their children still grow up inside black goat-hair tents, herding sheep at dawn and turning dust, sticks and mirrors into toys. By working in monochrome I focus on texture—the cracked earth, the woven blankets, the swirl of sheep—so that each frame speaks to both the endurance and the precariousness of a culture balanced between ancestral routes and a rapidly changing climate.

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