Photography by Jalal Sepehr (2004–2015)

Across more than a decade of work, Tehran-based photographer Jalal Sepehr uses the Persian carpet as a recurring subject, removing it from domestic interiors and placing it into various Iranian landscapes. The series Water and Persian Rugs and Red Zone share a formal logic in which the carpet's dense, patterned surface remains constant while the surrounding environment grows increasingly hostile or remote, testing what the object continues to carry once its context is stripped away.