It was midday. A couple of weeks of altitude trekking and simple food got me lethargic; i laid under a tree. Khudo Boz came by, all ready to cut barley, asked if I wanted to join. I lifted my camera, his outfit revealing years of hard work.
On my sixth expedition to the Wakhan corridor, shooting a story for National Geographic on the Out of Eden Walk (titled “Passage to Another Time”, Sept. 2018). A four-week trek from Afghanistan into Pakistan, across the Pamir and Karakoram mountains with writer Paul Salopek who is walking across the world on foot to retrace the ancient path of human migration.
Print Details
Format: Archival print, printed with pigment ink on acid free Hahnemühle paper.
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