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Green-eyed Gul returning from school. Wakhi girls are privileged in the sense that getting education is a priority among this Ismaili community. The Aga Khan, their spiritual leader says the following: “If you have 2 children, a boy and a girl, but not enough money to educate both kids: give education in priority to the girl – as a future mother, the girl will be the one later educating your grand children…” Sarhad Village, Wakhan Corridor.
In summer 2005, my wife and I and our donkey Clémentine crossed Afghanistan’s Pamir into Pakistan’s Karakoram, over 300 kilometres through several high passes. We came to deliver letters from the Afghan Kyrgyz community in exile in Eastern Turkey, to the Afghan Kyrgyz community still living in Afghanistan. They had not been in touch for 25 years.
Format: Archival print, printed with pigment ink on acid free Hahnemühle paper.
Edition of 50
Signed, titled and numbered on front
Image Size: 50 cm x 38 cm
Price increases as edition sells
Print is sold unmounted
For custom size or other questions, contact studio@paleyprints.com
This print will be printed to order in Lisbon and will usually ship within 2 weeks of receipt of payment.
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