Empty Quarter desert’s ‘1,000 shades of red’ captured in Hong Kong exhibition showing photos of world’s largest sand mass



In the southern expanse of the Arabian Peninsula lies the Rub’ al Khali desert, the world’s largest sand mass, covering parts of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman and the United Arab Emirates.In English, it is known as the Empty Quarter. But to photographer Palani Mohan, the vast desert – “it’s bigger than France” – is everything but empty.During his two years based in Dubai, the Indian-born, Australian-raised photographer made regular trips to the desert on the Saudi Arabia-UAE border. Now his images…


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