Portraits
A gallery of presence
faces that refuse to vanish.
A growing archive of photographs, each made in collaboration with the woman portrayed. Hover, and she will speak.
"I taught my daughters to read in a language they were told not to speak."
Roya, Kabul, Afghanistan
"Memory is the only home no one can bomb."
Tetiana, Kharkiv, Ukraine
"I learned that the dark is also a kind of paper."
Aisha, Khartoum, Sudan
"We did not lose our voices. We learned to whisper them louder."
Farzaneh, Herat, Afghanistan
"My daughter and I are each other's witness."
Layla, Aleppo, Syria
"They took my pen. They forgot I had hands."
Niloofar, Tehran, Iran
"The mountains know my real name."
Sevda, Karabakh, Azerbaijan