Iran – poetic color photography by Bastien Pons
In Iran, color speaks in hushed tones — faded turquoise tiles, ochre dust, and pale sunlight bleeding through latticework. In this photo series, Bastien Pons captures the country’s atmosphere with a painterly eye, focusing on texture, silence, and the poetry of everyday spaces.
Far from postcard aesthetics, these images explore the emotional weight of places: a closed door in Yazd, a quiet alley in Shiraz, the fractured geometry of ancient walls. The color is never loud — it whispers, stains, evaporates.
Each photograph is built like a visual palimpsest, where layers of time and culture quietly coexist. People are rarely centered. Instead, it’s the traces, the textures, the intervals that carry meaning — fragments that echo the sounds of a place that resists capture.
With a background in electroacoustic composition, Pons approaches visual art like sound: attentive to resonance, subtle rhythm, and what lies beneath the surface.
This series invites viewers into a fragile and intimate vision of Iran, through color photography that lingers rather than explains — an experience to absorb slowly, with all senses open.