Hashem Shakeri’s photographs show the texture of daily life in a place the rest of the world has seemingly forgotten.
Here are the shortlisted artists for Aperture’s annual award, which aims to spotlight new talent in contemporary photography.
Hashem Shakeri’s pastel-hued, otherworldly photographs depict a landscape on the verge of destruction.
Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.