Hadija and her father, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya. Eight-year-old Hadija remains mute after being separated from her mother in the crossing from Somalia

© Fazal Sheikh

Hadija and her father, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya. Eight-year-old Hadija remains mute after being separated from her mother in the crossing from Somalia

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Hadija and her father, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya. Eight-year-old Hadija remains mute after being separated from her mother in the crossing from Somalia,

1993

Fazal Sheikh, born 1965, New York, NY; active New York, NY and Zurich, Switzerland
x1994-67

Information

Title
Hadija and her father, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya. Eight-year-old Hadija remains mute after being separated from her mother in the crossing from Somalia
Dates

1993

Maker
Fazal Sheikh
Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 42.6 x 35.4 cm. (16 3/4 x 13 15/16 in.)
sheet: 50.3 x 40.5 cm. (19 13/16 x 15 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the artist, Class of 1987

Object Number
x1994-67
Place Depicted

Africa, Kenya, Mandera, Somali Refugee Camp

Inscription

Inscribed in graphite by the artist, verso bottom: Anep and her father, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya 1993. / Anep remains mute after being separated from her mother in the crossing from Somalia / Printed for the Art Museum at Princeton University.

Signed in graphite, verso bottom right: Fazal Sheikh

Culture
American
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
wars, children (people by age group), girls, refugees, refugee camps, portraits

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