The useless beauty

This series is my attempt to bring out the deep kindness and the tremendous poetry that I breathed during my recent trip into the western Iran. There, in those places, I found the sense of "useless", unnecessary beauty described by Mr. Firdusi - a seller of Persian carpets - at the end of Ryszard Kapuściński's book "Shah of Shahs". Mr. Firdusi describes his people - the Persians - like unable to give to the world something of useful or necessary from the technical and productive point of view, but able to embellish it because they left it (and leave it) the poetry, the miniature, the carpet: all "useless" things. All things that don't make life easier, but help to make it more beautiful, he says. I think it's true!