‘It’s a huge, futuristic space with massive skylights’: Ali Zolghadri’s best phone picture

The clean geometry of the Iran Mall in Tehran, and the way light moves through it, caught the fine art photographer’s eye The Iran Mall in Tehran is the largest shopping mall in the world. Ali Zolghadri recalls it being fairly empty the day he took this image, four months before the US and Israel launched their war on Iran. “This particular spot is in the central atrium. It’s a huge, futuristic space with sweeping curved lines, layered architecture, metallic surfaces and massive skylights,” T...

By Grace Holliday