Madrasa Student - Limited Edition of 3 Print

This is a companion to the image titled A Madrasa In Deh Sabz. Both photographs were made in Deh Sabz District, a short drive northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, in January, 2014. I lived in Kabul for over three years, making the documentary film Angels Are Made Of Light. While there I also made a series of extremely detailed panoramic images - mostly of street life in Kabul. The images are made using many exposures stitched together, then edited by hand and enhanced for detail. The pictures are both beautiful to look at as art and also serve as the most detailed and revealing documentary images in existence of the city of Kabul during this moment in history - the end of the Karzai era. This is one of the few panoramic images I made outside of Kabul, in the vast Afghan countryside. The image depicts an Afghan boy - a madrasa student in local dress riding a bicycle toward us out of a vast and desolate scene. The boy takes his Qur'an lessons at the religion school located inside the compound of a local historic shrine, which can be seen in the middle distance. In the far distance on the left side of the frame it is possible to see walled compounds, trees, and beyond that a range of mountainous hills wreathed in low clouds. The wintery blue sky overhead is as cold and remote as the love of God. Nothing green appears on the furrowed earth; curling scrub of ashen tan covers the fields. The student is carrying what appears to be the makings for a reed broom crossways in his bicycle frame, and stares directly into the camera. He is the same boy who looks up from his religious text into the camera in the photograph titled A Madrasa In Deh Sabz. The idea behind all of my work in Afghanistan and the other West Asian countries where I have lived over the past decades has 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 and the upkeep of their families. The image Madrasa Student is offered as an oversized 44 x 90 inch signed print on Hahnemühle paper in an edition limited to three at this museum print size. Rendered on museum quality Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, printed 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.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 6 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 11.25 H x 1.2 D in

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