| August 12, 2005 |
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Fazal Sheikh
Writer  and photographer Fazal Sheikh presents a series of photographs documenting refugee camps in the border regions of Kenya, Tanzania, and Malawi. Sheikh spent weeks inside the camps, gathering stories and taking elegant, posed black-and-white portraits that recall the early American photography of Edward S. Curtis. Sheikh also provides background on the history of the camps, which he ascribes to arbitrary 19th-century borders. Two of the more extensive galleries, "A Camel for the Son" and "Ramadan Moon," capture the lives of women refugees from Somalia. Sheikh, who is of Kenyan and Pakistani ancestry, also shares a family study of Afghanistan called "The Victor Weeps." (in Photographers) |
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