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recent times the press and television have been glutted with images of starving,
emaciated, ragged people in wretched camps standing in interminable lines
for a bit of sustenance, awaiting death with distended stomachs. Horrible
as these pictures are, they are almost clichés by now. Fazal Sheikh photographs
refugees without them. The Victor Weeps is full of strong, sober,
contemplative and respectful portraits rather than scenes of misery. The
men's faces are eloquent, mournful, intense, marked by years of sorrow and,
presumably, dedication. Even young children are seen close up with expressions
so serious they amount to sadness. Mr. Sheikh, restricting himself to portraits,
fills in the lives and pasts, the losses and longings, in his book with
quotations from the people themselves and accounts of what he heard and
saw." The New York Times, Vicki Goldberg, June 17, 1998 |
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