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Ayeem Khan wears boots borrowed from her father and the red veil of an unmarried Kyrgyz girl to be traded for a white one when she weds. Twice a day she milks the family’s yaks; some milk curd will be dried for use in winter, when yaks give less.
During my fifth expedition to Afghanistan’s Pamir mountains, on assignment photographing the isolated nomadic Kyrgyz community, for a National Geographic magazine feature story titled “Stranded on the Roof of the World” (February 2013). Shot in summer 2012.
Format: Archival print, printed with pigment ink on acid free Hahnemühle paper.
Exclusive Edition of 18
Signed and titled on the back.
Image Size: 75 cm x 60 cm
Print is sold unmounted
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This print will be printed to order in Lisbon and will usually ship within 2 weeks of receipt of payment.
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