Susan Meiselas

Susan Meiselas

Susan Meiselas

Shards of the canisters that remain after the chemical attack ordered by Saddam Hussein during the Anfal Campaign of May 1988. Below is the Lesser Zab River. Gotapa, Kurdistan, Northern Iraq, 1992

€129,00

“Today “Kurdistan” does not exist on the map. Since 1918, the Kurds’ homeland has remained divided among Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and what is now the former U.S.S.R. In each country the Kurds have been continuously threatened with either assimilation or extermination. But as a place, Kurdistan exists in the minds of around thirty million people, the largest ethnic people in the world without a state of its own.”

Print size: 32 x 22 cm including white border