Climate Refugee With Magenta Veil - Limited Edition of 1 Photograph

This is a single edition, unique signed print. Only one will be sold at this size. I lived in Pakistan for over a year while working on a documentary film set in an orphanage in Rawalpindi. During the years I was there a massive climate disaster struck Pakistan in the form of the 2010 floods, which devastated the country - claiming thousands of lives, washing away whole villages and making millions of Pakistanis into climate refugees. These floods in Pakistan were perhaps one of the first great disasters of the era of Climate Change. I spent weeks following the catastrophic flooding as it swept down through Sindh Province. Along the way I began making portraits with the Pakistani villagers who were now homeless, living in refugee camps, schools and other government buildings on higher ground. This image is one of those portraits. While making these portraits I also made a short film for UNICEF about the Pakistan flooding of 2010, from the point of view of a Sindhi boy named Ejaz, which may be viewed here: https://youtu.be/Q3_nnyYFSIo The woman in this portrait was living in a tent with her family in a crowded refugee camp next to the highway in Sukkur, Sindh Province. The camp was packed with tens of thousands of villagers who had fled their homes and villages when the flooding came. Now they were all living in tents, cheek by jowl, until the waters receded and they could go back to rebuild their lives. They waited in long lines for food. By the time I took this photograph the sun had already set and there was only the soft light of the burning sky, turning the colors of the world into stained glass and illuminating her care-worn face. Her eyes tell a story. Her face is a map. Forget everything you have been told about beauty by our pop culture; to me at that moment she was the most beautiful person on earth. I love her strength, her resilience. You can see the humor in the corners of her mouth, her kindness, intelligence, and sense of loss. The goal of my work in Pakistan 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 who allowed me to immortalize them in stills and in motion. This image is a single edition print. The print is 28 x 20 inches, which includes a 2-inch white border The printed portrait image is 24 x 16 inches Signed print Rendered on museum quality Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, made by a fine art printer 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:Digital on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 28 H x 0.1 D in

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