Zalmaï parcourt le monde depuis une vingtaine d'années. D'Afrique en Asie, de Cuba aux Etats-Unis. Sur le terrain, il prend du temps, parle à celles et ceux qu'il photographie, attend l'instant où un regard, une silhouette, un geste expriment soudain une vérité. Au-delà de la séduction des images, il se demande sans cesse, lesquelles sont vraies, lesquelles sont fausses. Avec l'envie, toujours, de rapprocher les gens, séparés entre eux par tant de clichés. Tout naturellement, il est attiré par l'Afghanistan, son pays d'origine. Mais en dépassant les images de la violence, Zalmaï veut "ouvrir les yeux des gens sur une réalité autrement plus riche que celle de la guerre et montrer la beauté de l'être humain dans cette misère." En achetant cet album de photographies, vous aidez concrètement RSF Suisse qui se bat pour un droit universel : le droit d'informer et d'être informé.Broché: 143 pagesEditeur : Favre Sa (30 avril 2009)Langue : FrançaisISBN-10: 2828910547ISBN-13: 978-2828910549
Zalmaï parcourt le monde depuis une vingtaine d'années. D'Afrique en Asie, de Cuba aux Etats-Unis. Sur le terrain, il prend du temps, parle à celles et ceux qu'il photographie, attend l'instant où un regard, une silhouette, un geste expriment soudain une vérité. Au-delà de la séduction des images, il se demande sans cesse, lesquelles sont vraies, lesquelles sont fausses. Avec l'envie, toujours, de rapprocher les gens, séparés entre eux par tant de clichés. Tout naturellement, il est attiré par l'Afghanistan, son pays d'origine. Mais en dépassant les images de la violence, Zalmaï veut "ouvrir les yeux des gens sur une réalité autrement plus riche que celle de la guerre et montrer la beauté de l'être humain dans cette misère." En achetant cet album de photographies, vous aidez concrètement RSF Suisse qui se bat pour un droit universel : le droit d'informer et d'être informé.
Broché: 143 pages
Editeur : Favre Sa (30 avril 2009)
Langue : Français
ISBN-10: 2828910547
ISBN-13: 978-2828910549
Silent Exodus: Portraits of Iraqi Refugees in ExileAperture 2008In early 2008, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that an estimated 4.4 million Iraqis had been displaced from their homes as a result of the war. While nearly half were uprooted internally, the remaining citizens escaped to neighboring countries. "The New York Times" called the escalating crisis, "the largest exodus since the mass migrations associated with the creation of the state of Israel in 1948." Today, the situation of most refugees remains dire; months and years into forced flight, many are running out of money, food and the good will of their hosts. In "Silent Exodus," Kabul-born, Switzerland-based photographer Zalmai chronicles the plight of Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon; over the course of several trips in 2007, he interviewed them, collected their individual stories and photographed them in their homes, where many remain in uncertainty. Although frequently harassed by neighbors, they are still afraid to return to Iraq, given the instability and violence that lingers there. Rarely told and under-reported, this is a human story which deserves a wider audience. Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" contributes an introduction to the work.Publisher: ApertureISBN: 1597110779EAN: 9781597110778No. of Pages: 96
Silent Exodus: Portraits of Iraqi Refugees in Exile
Aperture 2008
In early 2008, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported that an estimated 4.4 million Iraqis had been displaced from their homes as a result of the war. While nearly half were uprooted internally, the remaining citizens escaped to neighboring countries. "The New York Times" called the escalating crisis, "the largest exodus since the mass migrations associated with the creation of the state of Israel in 1948." Today, the situation of most refugees remains dire; months and years into forced flight, many are running out of money, food and the good will of their hosts. In "Silent Exodus," Kabul-born, Switzerland-based photographer Zalmai chronicles the plight of Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon; over the course of several trips in 2007, he interviewed them, collected their individual stories and photographed them in their homes, where many remain in uncertainty. Although frequently harassed by neighbors, they are still afraid to return to Iraq, given the instability and violence that lingers there. Rarely told and under-reported, this is a human story which deserves a wider audience. Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" contributes an introduction to the work.
Publisher: Aperture
ISBN: 1597110779
EAN: 9781597110778
No. of Pages: 96
Return , Afghanistan -APERTURE2004For more than a quarter of a century, Afghanistan has been ravaged by war, drought, and famine. In this magnificent volume, Afghan-born photographer Zalmaï returns home after twenty-three years in exile to rediscover his homeland at a crucial moment of transition. Working in rich color, and frequently using a panoramic format that embraces the vastness of the sky and sand, Zalmaï immerses us in the ravaged landscape and the bustle of reconstruction. My project tries to capture the resilience of a people who have rarely known peace, their optimism in the face of overwhelming odds and the very real worry that the country remains on a knife-edge and could easily slip back into a nightmare from which it is still trying to escape.Hardback11.75" x 8"128 pages 80 four-colo and 5 duotone
Return , Afghanistan -APERTURE
2004
For more than a quarter of a century, Afghanistan has been ravaged by war, drought, and famine. In this magnificent volume, Afghan-born photographer Zalmaï returns home after twenty-three years in exile to rediscover his homeland at a crucial moment of transition. Working in rich color, and frequently using a panoramic format that embraces the vastness of the sky and sand, Zalmaï immerses us in the ravaged landscape and the bustle of reconstruction. My project tries to capture the resilience of a people who have rarely known peace, their optimism in the face of overwhelming odds and the very real worry that the country remains on a knife-edge and could easily slip back into a nightmare from which it is still trying to escape.
Hardback
11.75" x 8"
128 pages
80 four-colo and 5 duotone
ECLIPSE Umbrage 2002Zalmaïs photographs capture the slow, distressing drift of exile and dispossession: spectral figures against a stormy sky, a sheared row of peaks framing a figure like a sacred relic, horizons of men, both of this world and of some timeless land. This is a documentation of a journey through ambiguous territoriesfrom Cuba to India, Mali to the Philippines, Indonesia to Egypt, and a return to Zalmaïs native Afghanistana search for place when ones own land has been destroyed.The changing interplay of composition, light, and faces infuse the photographs of Zalmaï in this book, which speaks of transformation and disenfranchisement not just of place but of spirit. Most of all, his work is about the fragility of presence.These are photographs that have been shaped over centuries by ideas carried in mens soulsnot places given by the gods in their placid beauty. Instead, the interiors of these photographs are tangled and jagged, meandering and menacing, of this earth even as they reach to the sky. In the aggregate, they sketch a fragmented story of dispossession, of a voyage of the spirit, of the complex emotions of return. Paris-based Afghan novelist, Atiq Rahimi, contributes an original preface, The Memory of the Mirror. In Eclipse, these two voices offer insight into an Afghanistan lost, but not forgotten, and of the enduring legacy of exile. An exhibition of the work opened at the Musée dElysée, Lausanne in Fall 2002, before traveling internationally. Daniel Girardin, Curator of the Museé dElyseé, curated the European exhibition and contributes an essay to this volume.
ECLIPSE Umbrage 2002
Zalmaïs photographs capture the slow, distressing drift of exile and dispossession: spectral figures against a stormy sky, a sheared row of peaks framing a figure like a sacred relic, horizons of men, both of this world and of some timeless land. This is a documentation of a journey through ambiguous territoriesfrom Cuba to India, Mali to the Philippines, Indonesia to Egypt, and a return to Zalmaïs native Afghanistana search for place when ones own land has been destroyed.
The changing interplay of composition, light, and faces infuse the photographs of Zalmaï in this book, which speaks of transformation and disenfranchisement not just of place but of spirit. Most of all, his work is about the fragility of presence.These are photographs that have been shaped over centuries by ideas carried in mens soulsnot places given by the gods in their placid beauty. Instead, the interiors of these photographs are tangled and jagged, meandering and menacing, of this earth even as they reach to the sky. In the aggregate, they sketch a fragmented story of dispossession, of a voyage of the spirit, of the complex emotions of return. Paris-based Afghan novelist, Atiq Rahimi, contributes an original preface, The Memory of the Mirror. In Eclipse, these two voices offer insight into an Afghanistan lost, but not forgotten, and of the enduring legacy of exile.
An exhibition of the work opened at the Musée dElysée, Lausanne in Fall 2002, before traveling internationally. Daniel Girardin, Curator of the Museé dElyseé, curated the European exhibition and contributes an essay to this volume.
