Author: Zalmai
Publisher: Umbrage Editions
Keywords: eclipse
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2002-04
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1884167136
ISBN-13: 9781884167133

Zalmai’s extraordinary and unforgettable photographs capture the slow, distressing drift of exile and dispossession: spectral figures against a stormy ski; a sheared row of peaks frame a figure like a sacred relic; horizons of men, both of this world and of some timeless land. This is a documentation of a journey through ambiguous territories - from Cuba to India, Mali to the Philippines, Indonesia to Egypt, and return to Zalmai’s native Afghanistan - a search for place when one’s own land has been destroyed. The changing interplay of composition, light, and faces infuses t