When the Borders Bleed: The Struggle of the Kurds, 1991–2005
A Kurdish woman stands trial accused of being a member of the Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) in Turkey, 1991. ‘Photography allows me to have an intimate, front-row seat to witness and record major events in history. It also allows me to focus on the small, but no less powerful, moments in the lives of regular folks who do life-affirming actions that would otherwise go unnoticed’
City of the Dead, 1993
In Cairo, people displaced by a housing shortage have laid claim to the city’s main cemetery, and 120,000 live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums. It is a thriving necropolis where the sanctity of the dead coexists with the needs of the living. A glass factory is one of the many small industries that function there.
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