Hawr al-Azim Water Buffaloes no.5

Artist of this series: Pâyeez Khorsand
Size: 10 × 14 cm

The Water Buffaloes of Hawr al-Azim collection is the sixteenth chapter in the story of Ravandeh.

This series includes eight postcards.

The Water Buffaloes of Hawr al-Azim collection is a visual endeavor to bridge memory and remembrance, humans and their bodies, and their environment. Bodies that merge and become one with their surroundings, memories that fragment and reach the future—and our present—disjointedly, like images and photographs. The Hawr al-Azim wetland, its water buffaloes, and its people are facing destruction and disappearance, undergoing transformation, and all that remains of them are images for remembering and preserving.

Hawr al-Azim is a place on the border between Iran and Iraq, on the edge of greater Khuzestan—a place where water is precious, where the water buffalo is the scorched sovereign of southern waters, and where humans have tied their fate to this water, these buffaloes, and their own marginalized bodies.

The water buffaloes of Hawr al-Azim are a reflection of us. Are we not like them? Scorched, persistent, and hopeful.

Number

17,00

description

Ravandeh, like a river that even in the valley’s descent encounters stones yet finds its way. I always find myself humming this verse by Houshang Ebtehaj:
“Like the river that, in the slope of the valley, dashes against stones / Be a passer-by; hope works no miracle from the dead; be alive.”

Ravandeh is a place for postcards—images yearning to take form; they can be photographs, paintings, sketches, prints, or embroideries. Each one is a fragment of someone’s journey, now captured on a postcard.

Ravandeh began with the Kouhestan (Mountain) series—a space where life and resilience flow through every moment. I hope Ravandeh can convey that sensation of being alive in the moment—a kind of raw, authentic life, even within this digital world.

I’m Faëzeh Darvish, and Ravandeh grew from my passion for seeing and preserving moments. Each postcard is a gentle invitation to pause, for those who, like me, find heart in simple, genuine details.

Ravandeh is not just a postcard shop—it’s a brief respite within the rush, a way to express what can be held within the frame of an image.

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