Top Photo: From left to write: Maryam Sachs, Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi, Swiss photographer Georg Gerster in front of his aerial picture of Mount Damavand Photo by KA. Swiss photographer Georg Gerster undertook a dangerous mission in the 1970’s to capture the beauty of Iran from the air on film, sticking his camera out a of a plane to do so. Flying on business over Iran, I had been struck by the thought that Persia’s natural and cultural landscape was predestined to be viewed from the air, with its salt deserts, gardens like slices of paradise, and waterless wind-sculpted wastelands. [Read More] [Link to Mr Gerster’s Book]
