Notes on Photographs
The photographs contained in Human Archipelago are drawn from the full range of Fazal Sheikh’s work to date. More specific information on the photographs may be found in the following volumes and projects: A Sense of Common Ground (1996), The Victor Weeps (1998), Ramadan Moon (2000), A Camel for the Son (2000), Moksha (2005), Ladli (2008), Portraits (2009), Ether (2012), The Erasure Trilogy (Memory Trace, Desert Bloom, Independence/Nakba, 2015), The Conflict Shoreline (2015), as well as the projects Simpatia (2002), his earliest work in South Africa, and his current project, The Exposure Trilogy (forthcoming).
2. Menka (“Celestial nymph”), Vrindavan, India, 2005
3. Muradi, Afghan refugee village, Nasir Bagh, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1996
4. Night walking in Vrindavan, India, 2005
5. Rodi with roses, streets of Delhi, India, 2008
6. Site of the Palestinian village of Deir Rafat, Jerusalem District, Israel, 2013
7. Sanjeeta, Palna orphanage, Delhi, India, 2008
8. Ruins of the Palestinian village of Lifta, Jerusalem District, Israel, 2013
9. Remains of the city of Rehovot-in-the-Negev/Ruḥeiba (Heb./Arabic), close to the Egyptian border, now encircled by a military live-fire training zone, 2011
10. Abshiro Aden Mohammed, women’s leader, Somali refugee camp, Dagahaley, Kenya, 2000
11a. Israeli, born 2012, 2013, 31. Palestinian, born 2012, 2013
11b. Israeli, born 1999, 2013, 33. Palestinian, born 1999, 2013
11c. Israeli, born 1972, 2013, 35. Palestinian, born 1972, 2013
11d. Israeli, born 1948, 2013, 37. Palestinian, born 1948, 2013
12. Harira Abdullai Mohamoud and her son Mohammed, Médecins sans Frontières feeding center, Somali refugee camp, Mandera, Kenya, 1992
14. Afghan boy born in exile, Afghan refugee village, Urghuch, Pakistan, 1996
16. Chrissie Butterworth’s neighbors, Griquatown “Coloured Location,” South Africa, 1989
17. Afghan girl and brother born in exile, Afghan refugee village, Khairabad, North Pakistan, 1998
19. Fateh Khan, Afghan elder, Afghan refugee village, Badabare, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1998
20. Naʽīma Muhammad Ismaʽīl, Qalandiya refugee camp, Palestine, 2011
22. Dona Nika in her garden, Grande Sertão Veredas, Brazil, 2001
23. Soni, streets of Delhi, India, 2008
24. Mon Maya Kharga, attacked by a bear as a child, Bhutanese refugee village, Timai, Nepal, 1996
25. From the water tower of the Somali refugee camp at Liboi, Kenya, looking east across the borderlands to Somalia, 1992
26a. Bibi Mah, Afghan refugee village, Khairabad, North Pakistan, 1998
26b. Shahjahan Apa, women’s rights leader, Delhi, India, 2008
26c. Abdul Basir, Afghan refugee village, Khairabad, North Pakistan, 1998
26d. Sarla Goraye (“Simple”), Vrindavan, India, 2005
26e. Suniti Chatterjee (“Good rule”), Vrindavan, India, 2005
27. Chapala Sundri Dhar (“Electric”), Vrindavan, India, 2005
28. Fields at dawn, outskirts of Vrindavan, India, 2005
29. Bhajan Ashram at dawn, Vrindavan, India, 2005
30. Bhajan Ashram, Vrindavan, India, 2005
32. Osman and Farid, blind qari (“One who knows the Koran by heart”) brothers, Afghan refugee village, Nasir Bagh, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1997
33. Hadija and her father, Badel Addan Gadel, Somali refugee camp, Mandera, Kenya, 1993
34. Quran Gul, Afghan refugee village, Khairabad, North Pakistan, 1998
35. Kamlesh, streets of Delhi, India, 2008
36. Ruins of the Palestinian village of Umm al-Shōf, Haifa district, Israel, 2013
37. Glori Rodrigues, Grande Sertão Veredas, Brazil, 2001
39. Gravesite on the outskirts of the Somali refugee camp, Mandera, Kenya, 2000
40. Funerial bier awaiting cremation, Manikarnika Ghat, Benares, India, 2012
41. Night passage beside the River Yamuna, Vrindavan, India, 2005
42. Dawn along the River Yamuna, Vrindavan, India, 2005
43. Night walking in Benares, India, 2012
44. Night walking in Benares, India, 2012
45. Fihiyo Aden and her son Bedel, Somali refugee camp, Dagahaley, Kenya, 2000
46. Halima Abdullai Hassan and her grandson Mohammed, Somali refugee camp, Dagahaley, Kenya, 2000
48. Manita, Hindu school for girls, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, 2008
49. Dona Antonia, Grande Sertão Veredas, Brazil, 2001
51. Ambrosia Lake uranium tailings pile cap site, New Mexico, 2018
52. Remains of barrack foundations and communal area, Topaz War Relocation Center for Japanese-American internees, outskirts of Delta, Utah, 2018
53. Rohullah, Afghan refugee village, Badabare, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1997
54. Remains of the Shrine of Sayyidna in the evacuated Palestinian village of Salama, Jaffa District, Israel, 2011
55. Seynab Azir Wardeere, Asylum Seekers’ Center, Osdorp, the Netherlands, 2000
56. Idelino’s brother’s hand, squatter encampment, Grande Sertão Veredas, Brazil, 2001
57. Shamso, Zahara, and Alima, Somali refugee camp, Liboi, Kenya, 1994
58. Israeli, born 1974, 2013, 137. Palestinian, born 1974, 2013
60. Night sky, India, 2012
61. Anisa Aḥmad Jāber Maḥamīd, Born in al-Lajjūn, Jenīn District in 1908, Umm el-Faḥem Arab-Israeli town, 2011
63. Funerary garland remains, Manikarnika Ghat, Benares, India, 2012
64. Dona Nika’s porch, Grande Sertão Veredas, Brazil, 2001
65a. Night walking in Benares, India, 2012
65b. Night walking in Benares, India, 2012
66. Seynab Azir Wardeere, Asylum Seekers’ Center, Osdorp, the Netherlands, 2000
67. Night sky, India, 2012
68. Marks of passage along an improvised route through the Ḥalutsa Sands towards the Egyptian border, the Negev/Naqab (Hebrew/Arabic), Israel 2011
69. Abdul Aziz holding an image of his brother, Mula Abdul Hakim, Afghan refugee village, Khairabad, North Pakistan, 1998
71. Ramadan night, streets of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2000
72. Annu, Jai Hind squatter settlement, Delhi, India, 2008
73. Tupasi’s bedroom, government women’s ashram, Vrindavan, India, 2005
74. Ruins and surrounding lands of the Palestinian village of Nitāf, Jerusalem District, Israel, 2013
75. Sunita, Shakti Vahini shelter for trafficked girls, Haryana, India, 2008
78. Rekha, Shakti Vahini shelter for trafficked girls, Haryana, India, 2008
79. Ruin and surround lands of the Palestinian village of Beit Jibrīn, Hebron District, Israel, 2013
80. Gumercindo Lisboa, Grande Sertão Veredas, Brazil, 2001
81. Women’s Committee, Somali refugee camp, Liboi, Kenya, 1994
83. Simran, homeless shelter, Delhi, India, 2008
84. Munīr Khalīl Aḥmad Saber, Shuʽfāt refugee camp, Palestine, 2011
85. Night walking in Benares, India, 2012
86. Fatuma Hales Osman, Somali refugee camp, Dagahaley, Kenya, 2000
88. Remains of the foundation grid of the barracks, administrative offices, and hospital, Topaz War Relocation Center for Japanese-American Internees, outskirts of Delta, Utah, 2017
89. Dawn along the Yamuna, Vrindavan, India, 2003
90. Afghan boy born in exile, Afghan refugee village, Urghuch, North Pakistan, 1996
92. Ajoh Achot and Achol Manyen, Sudanese refugee camp, Lokichoggio, Kenya, 1992
93. Darmi Halake Gilo, Borana war widow, Ethiopian refugee camp, Walda, Kenya, 1993
100a. Remains of the foundations of the homestead of Ḥasan a-Sarāyʽa, near the unrecognized Palestinian village of Bāt al-Sarāyʽa, now an Israeli military live-fire training zone, the Negev/Naqab, Israel, 2011
100b. Remains of a Bedouin home and fenced area within a site confiscated by the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the Negev/Naqab, Israel, 2011
100c. Remains of Bedouin homesteads cleared by the Israeli military near the unrecognized Palestinian villages of al-Qurʽān and Qabbūʽa, the Negev/Naqab, Israel, October 2011
100d. Preparations for the Jewish National Fund Ambassador Forest on the site of the former homes of the Abu Jāber, Abu Mdīghem, and Abu Freiḥ families of the al-Tūri tribe, part of the unrecognized Palestinian village of al-ʽAraqīb, the Negev/ Naqab, Israel, 2011
100e. Pitas, targets to simulate enemy Egyptian and Syrian installations in a closed Israeli live-fire training zone on former pasturelands of the ʽAzāzme tribe, the Negev/Naqab, Israel, 2011
101a. Uranium Disposal Cell containing 1.3 million tons of toxic waste and uranium tailings, along with the mill, buildings, and a schoolhouse, constructed from contaminated material, Mexican Hat, Utah, 2018
101b. Tuba City Uranium Disposal Cell, Navajo Nation, Arizona, 2018
101c. Precision bombing target in the form of a swastika, constructed and used by the US Army Air Corps between 1942 and 1945, east of Artesia, New Mexico, 2017
101d. Graded coal and oil wells, Huntington Power Plant, Utah, 2018
101e. Fracking and oil drill pads, Uintah Basin, south of Vernal, Utah, 2018
102. Nūri Al-ʻUqbi, Bedouin rights advocate and leader of the unrecognized village community of al-ʻAraqīb, Hūra Bedouin township, Israel, 2013
103. Night walking in Benares, India, 2012
104. William Gai and Peter Deng, Unaccompanied Minors’ section, Sudanese refugee camp, Lokichoggio, Kenya, 1992