When Colour Moves was photographed in Palangan, a village in Kurdistan, Iran, during the spring gatherings around Nowruz.
What stayed with me was not only the celebration, but the way the whole village seemed to change when people came together. Colour moved through clothing and bodies. Music travelled across the stone houses and the river. Dancers, spectators, architecture and landscape all became part of the same moment.
I was drawn to the energy created by people gathering in one place — to the way movement could spread beyond the dancers and into the crowd, the light, and the village itself. For a few hours, the place seemed to take on another rhythm.
These photographs are not meant as a simple record of a ceremony. They are about the experience of being together: how colour, music and shared movement can transform a place, and how a sense of cultural continuity can live through collective presence.
For me, the work is about that moment when a place begins to move with the people inside it.
