Afghanistan under the Taliban
dal 17/11/2000 al 4/2/2001
Segnalato da
17/11/2000
Afghanistan under the Taliban
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Selections from Fazal Sheikh's The Victor Weeps. Since receiving his bachelor's degree from Princeton a little more than a decade ago, Fazal Sheikh has made himself into a present-day equivalent to the sort of photographer of conscience that photojournalism has always produced in the past. The difference is that Sheikh is not a reporter; he's a portraitist, one of the most compelling working today.
Selections from Fazal Sheikh's The Victor Weeps.
Since receiving his bachelor's degree from Princeton a
little more than a decade ago, Fazal Sheikh has made himself into a
present-day equivalent to the sort of photographer of conscience that
photojournalism has always produced in the past. The difference is
that Sheikh is not a reporter; he's a portraitist, one of the most
compelling working today. His portraits made in Sudanese, Somali,
and Ethiopian refugee camps in the early 1990s are remarkable for the
moment of dignity and presence that they elicit from people who have
lost everything and are in the midst of, literally, fleeing for their lives.
A more recent body of work will be featured in the Art Institute exhibition. This is his portraiture
from Afghanistan done covertly under the noses of the Taliban regime. Published in Sheikh's 1998
book The Victor Weeps, these portraits, combined with a few views of the decimated state of
Afghan society, tell the tragic story of that country's fate under the extreme fundamentalists who are
now in power.
Curator: Colin Westerbeck, associate curator of photography, Department of Photography, The
Art Institute of Chicago.
Galleries 2-4
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Tuesday 10:30-8:00
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