€1100
Fifteen year-old Iqbal has been married for two months. Today is the veil ceremony, where she will exchange her childhood crimson veil for a married woman’s white headdress. She struggles and cries as the older women around her get ready to fasten the white veil on her head.
During my fourth 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 winter 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
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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