Cover of Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, 1997
Spread from Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, 1997
Spread from Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, 1997
Spread from Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, 1997
Excerpts from diaries and documents make public what was often a personal record or private exchange. Suggesting the randomness by which history gets made, newspaper clippings and selected bits of memoirs reveal what was presented by the media and commonly believed at the time. Rather than emerging as a completed puzzle with every piece fitting neatly together, this book project has revealed a mosaic -- only from a distance is there a shape to discern. This is a reconstruction based on what remains and has been retrieved; we cannot know what is gone. Certainly, much is missing.
-S.M. from "Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History"
Spread from Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, 1997
Spread from Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, 1997
Spread from Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, 1997
Spread from Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, 1997
The site akaKurdistan functioned as an extension of the book project and a borderless space, providing the opportunity to build a living, collective memory with a people who have no national archive. Unidentified photographs, unearthed during research for the book and pictures submitted by internet viewers, were presented alongside the stories behind the images.
Screenshot of akaKurdistan website, 1998
Screenshot of akaKurdistan website, 1998
Screenshot of akaKurdistan website, 1998
Screenshot of akaKurdistan website, 1998
Screenshot of akaKurdistan website, 1998