Ali Shokri is famous for his black-and-white landscapes. Trees are an integral part of his photographs. Shokri was born in Tabriz. His father was very interested in planting trees. His attachment to nature and trees was formed in his existence from his childhood, when he was seven years old, during a trip to his ancestral village. At university, when he was studying computer network engineering, he got a camera at the suggestion of one of his friends and started photography in 2008. His interest in trees led him to begin photographing this subject and gradually regain his personal expression in the face of this subject. He showed the results of this work period in 5 group and individual exhibitions, and his works were introduced to international art centers. In the same year, he started teaching photography on the Tabriz television network. So far, his photos have been exhibited in London Art, Art Gallery and Tatler's England, Art line China, andٍ Expo art carrousel du louver. The collection of Ali Shokri's photos has been published in a book titled "Troubles of Trees" by Matador Publishing of England. This book contains 111 square-cut images of trees, and Hadi Shafaieh has written an introduction for this collection.

Shokri has always had environmental concerns and mentions his nature-loving goals in his interviews. His concern about the destruction of the environment and trees is a double motivation to address this issue. He takes his camera to different cities in Iran, such as Lorestan, Shahrekord, Azerbaijan, etc., and records the trees and pristine nature of these regions in his photos. He gives personality to trees in his pictures and uses them as a metaphor for humans in his narratives. A series of his works depicting trees and their shadows in a snow-covered landscape is somewhat reminiscent of Abbas Kiarostami's photographs of trees. The difference is that Shokri's works are not simple and minimalistic. Nature has a dramatic and noisy tone in Shokri's works; therefore, it is considered more of a romantic interpretation. A quality that emerges by recording the trees' greatness, the trunk twist, the crowd of branches, and a steamy and foggy atmosphere.