€600
The first time I saw someone smoking opium. I was hesitant to photograph. The younger son of the Khan, Wuruchan Noor Ullah, the ‘king’ of the Kyrgyz. It was raining outside, he was just back from patrolling the Tajik border, some yaks had gone missing, strolling into another country. Afghanistan.
In summer 2005, my wife and I and our donkey Clémentine crossed Afghanistan’s Pamir into Pakistan’s Karakoram, over 300 km 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.
Open Edition
Signed and titled on the back.
Image Size: 36 cm x 48 cm
Print is sold unmounted
For custom size or other questions, contact studio@paleyprints.com
This print will be printed to order in Hong Kong and will usually ship within 2 weeks of receipt of payment.
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