An earliest abstract shot,playing with obstructing the lens with various substances. These are the dunes of Skardu, near where we lived, in the back is Karpocho mountain.
In July 1999, at the impressionable age of 25, my girlfriend and I left New York with a one-way ticket to Pakistan. We headed for the mountains and couldn’t get enough of them. We opened up new passes, learned the language, went into the wild. Karakoram, Hindu Kush, Pamir, year after year, we must have trekked over 3000 kilometres.
Print Details
Format: Archival print, printed with pigment ink on acid free Hahnemühle paper.
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