Afghan Girl In Red, Kabul - Limited Edition of 1 Photograph

I had already been living in Kabul for two years when I took this picture. It is part of series of candid portraits, panoramas and street photographs I made to document childhood in Kabul at the end of the Hamid Karzai era, 2011-2015. This is a museum-sized panoramic image, which I will print only once at this large scale. The photograph - which is made up of some ten combined exposures - plays with ideas like perspective to unfurl a section of lower Nader Khan Hill in Kabul. In the foreground a Kabul street scene is playing out in which children mind a series of street stalls next to a water pump by the road leading up toward the houses in the Nader Khan Hill neighborhood of Kabul, one afternoon at the end of December, 2013. The idea of the picture is not only to explore the world of the children, but also a way to open up a kind of urban landscape of Kabul that feels open enough to walk into. My Kabul panoramas are environmental, in the the sense that they are intended to give the viewer a kind of virtual reality impression of the place. I want you to be able to see all the pieces of gravel on the road, all of the sequins on the girl's dress, to have the feeling of presence and human rather than mechanical vision. Unlike most pictures of children, the children in this image are serious and adult. In Kabul, children grow up early and take on responsibilities to support their families. You can feel seriousness and the weight of this responsibility on the shoulders of the children in this image. I enjoy images that are truly un-staged and authentically documentary in nature. Just as I work to record authentic moments in my documentary film work, I am interested in making photographs that register real life as it is happening and allow the view into the scene. Even when I make a portrait I am trying to capture not just the personality of the subject, but also them at that moment, however they may be. The idea behind all of my work in Afghanistan and the other West Asian countries where I have lived over the past decades has always been to express to a broader audience the beautiful humanity that I found all around me. The people in these countries have suffered greatly through various wars and conflicts, but their character remains stronger than ever. My films and photographs are love poems to my friends and all the people I met and worked with, who collaborated with me to immortalize them in stills and in motion. A portion of my income goes to support people I have filmed and worked with in the past, their education expenses and the upkeep of their families. This single-edition over-size print is signed and unmounted, unframed. This photograph is a unique print at this scale: 84 x 39 inches This size includes a 2-inch border (3-inches on the bottom edge.) There will be only one. Rendered on museum quality Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, made by a fine art printer using archival inks in the United States. About the paper: Hahnemühle papers are designed for archival storage are acid-free, which makes them highly resistant to ageing. The paper is also lignin-free, which means it should consist of linters or alpha-cellulose. Lignin-free paper does not yellow.

Photography:Color on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:84 W x 38.8 H x 0.2 D in

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