"For me this is a really important topic: the environmental problems in the world," says photographer Maximilian Mann, who traveled to Iran three times to document the bare land once obscured under saltwater.
“对我来说这是个很重要的问题,即世界上的环保问题,”摄影师马克西米连·曼说道,他曾三次到伊朗去拍摄记录曾经位于水位之下的地面。
"I was really surprised about the size of the lake and how fast the lake is dying," he says.
“对于如今湖泊的大小以及缩减的速度,我真的感到很惊讶,”他说道。
"It was really a shock for me to see it. When I was there the first time, I can remember: I went to a hill and I saw only desert."
“看到它令我感到震惊。我第一次去的时候,我还记得:我去了一座山,只看到沙漠。”
Mann, who lives in Germany, traveled to Iran first in September 2018, then in November and again in January this year.
曼先生住在德国,2018年9月第一次去了伊朗,后来11月以及今年1月又去了两次。
His photos are collected from all three trips.
他的照片就来自这三次旅程。