Khuzestan Flood – (Extended)

Project Location | Middle East, Iran, Khuzestan
Production Date | 2019-04-17


The Iranian new year of Nowruz is a drawn out festival of family social events, delightful food varieties and flavors, fire celebrations, customs, and road exhibitions. However, in 2019, the occasion was set apart by misfortune. Long stretches of weighty downpours, at first invited in the dry season stricken nation, transformed into horrendous floods. A phenomenal 15 of Iran’s 31 regions were submerged for a really long time before the floodwaters subsided. In excess of 70 lives were lost, and north of 1,000 individuals were harmed, some of them fundamentally.

In general, the primary drivers of this peculiarity included: 1. Enduring dry seasons and sedimentation during past 5 years, 2. Building development in rustic and agrarian grounds, revegetation bowls and other human activities along waterways, 3. Decrease of the limit of Hourol Azim swamps of Bamdezh because of different other human mediations and uncovering exercises, and 4. Obliteration of flood defenders for having more admittance to water during dry spell.
This undertaking was shot a couple of days after the flood started in the impacted urban communities and towns of Khuzestan territory in 2019.