مجموعه‌ی "پشت آن کوه بلند"

"Confronting the truth and reality of everyday life can sometimes seem so impossible that, if we look at it with the eyes of a beginner, it is likely that everything we are in the midst of will turn into ruins, and we will seek another truth and reality in hopes of giving meaning to a life filled with emptiness. The greater the truth and reality we face, the harder it is to comprehend and the more complex it becomes to free ourselves from it. The longer our stillness in such situations lasts, and the deeper the roots of that inevitability are, the more dignified the remnants of suffering become on our backs, making it harder to express and more difficult to leave that situation.

Practice is necessary to confront the harrowing truths of life; it is essential to see differently what drains our souls, whether we love it or sometimes even dislike it but still submit to it. Traveling to pristine and lesser-known places is a practice for me; understanding the happiness of home after a 14-day journey in the mountains is a practice. Recognizing a situation where the mundane destroys its beauty is possible for me through such practice. Until my recent trip, I did not believe that the capacity of human existence could be so flexible. After my journey to K2, whenever hardship and difficulty weigh upon me, I can reflect on what I experienced in the mountains, allowing me to add pain and suffering to my being with grace and to look at my burdens with a cheerful perspective.

Transcending the visual beauty derived from the colors and diversity of elements in the unique mountain landscapes to reach a personal understanding of beauty is not easy. However, accessing other dimensions of beauty, which I believe are etched in the shape, form, and texture of ancient mountains and bear a profound resemblance to the impact of suffering in human life, can only be achieved through a long life in the mountains. This repetition transforms the meaning of beauty.

Seeing unattainable peaks from kilometers away, when the distant blue embraces them until we manage to pass by their grandeur with slow steps, alters the aesthetics of the mountains and interprets their truth and terrifying reality for us. The more bare and pristine the mountain, the different the experience of touching and transforming beauty will be.

This collection features photographs of the first highest peak on Earth, Everest (the Nepal-China border), the second highest and most dangerous mountain in the world, K2 (the Pakistan-China border), as well as the fourth (Lhotse), sixth (Cho Oyu), and twelfth (Broad Peak) highest peaks in the world. Other images pertain to six and seven-thousand-meter peaks surrounding the highest mountains on Earth. This collection has been photographed over two years and continues to evolve."