The Moon Is Behind Us
 

Notes on the photographs

4 JULY 2020
Neesha Sharma’s daughter, Kumkum, Aashray Adhikar Abhiyan (AAA) ­homeless shelter, Delhi, India, 2008

5 JULY 2020
Ramón Ramírez Rodríguez with his Saint Lazarus statue, Saint Lazarus Church, El Rincón, Cuba, 2002

6 JULY 2020
Nyirabahire Esteri, traditional midwife, holding newborns Nsabimana (“I beg something from God”) and Mukanzabonimpa (“God will grant me, but I don’t know when”), flanked by mothers Kanyange, Mukabatazi, and her mother, Rwandan refugee camp, Lumasi, Tanzania, 1994

7 JULY 2020
Rohullah, Afghan elder and former Mujahidin in the war against the Soviets, Afghan refugee village, Badabare, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1997

8 JULY 2020
Shahria, Afghan refugee village, Urghuch, North Pakistan, 1998

9 JULY 2020
Night-walking in Benares, India, 2012

10 JULY 2020
Rooftop pigeon roost, Delhi, India, 2005

11 JULY 2020
Bhajan Ashram at dawn, Vrindavan, India, 2005

12-13 JULY 2020
Alima Hassan Abdullai and her brother Mahmoud, Médecines sans Frontières feeding center, Somali refugee camp, Mandera, Kenya, 1993

Wezemana (“God is great”) with her brother Mitonze, Rwandan refugee camp, Lumasi, Tanzania, 1994

14 JULY 2020
Kulaso Whisky’s wives, Sarah January, Maria Vinti, and Shika Francisco, Mozambican refugee camp, Nyamithuthu, Malawi, 1994

15 JULY 2020
Cremation grounds, Manikarnika Ghat, Benares, India, 2012

16 JULY 2020
Unaccompanied Minors, Sudanese refugee camp, Lokichoggio, Kenya, 1992

17 JULY 2020
Rani, School for children of sex workers, Delhi, India, 2008

18 JULY 2020
Saladho Hassan Ali, on the day her daughter, Markaba, fought off an attacker while collecting firewood, Somali refugee camp, Hagadera, Kenya, 2000

19 JULY 2020
Kulprasadh Subba’s funeral pyre, Bhutanese refugee village, Goldap, Nepal, 1996

20 JULY 2020
Chandra Bhaga (“Half moon”), widows’ ashram, Vrindavan, India, 2005

21 JULY 2020
Israeli, born 1955, 2013. p. 99. Palestinian, born 1955, 2013 (diptych)

22 JULY 2020
The courtyard of Zubir’s home, Pate, Kenya, 1989

23 JULY 2020
Muradi, born in exile, Afghan refugee village, Nasir Bagh, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1996

24 JULY 2020
Carina, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) student, following Sunday Mass, Sacred Heart Chapel, Ohio, 2019

Email images 7/20/19 from top: Rusi and Masoka, US immigrants from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Carina, DACA student from Mexico, Cleveland, Ohio, 2019; Catherine and Grace, US immigrants from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; statue of the Christ Child, St. Vitus Church, Cleveland, Ohio, 2019

25 JULY 2020
Pedro (name changed to protect privacy and due to the threat of refoulement), US immigrant from Latin America, Cleveland, Ohio, 2019

26 JULY 2020
Doctor Jan’s son and friend, Afghan refugee village, Nasir Bagh, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1996

27 JULY 2020
Marabou stork flying above Gabbra tribal matriarch with women and children, Ethiopian refugee camp, Walda, Kenya, 1993 (triptych)

28 JULY 2020
Day laborer, Lebowa homeland, South Africa, 1989

29 JULY 2020
Justine, genocide survivor, Democratic Republic of the Congo, arrived in the United States on May 9, 2019, Cleveland, Ohio, 2019

30 JULY 2020
Sisters Sima and Shahima, Afghan refugee village, Nasir Bagh, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 1996

31 JULY 2020
Krishna icons and images of the guru at rest, widows’ ashram, Vrindavan, India, 2005

1 AUGUST 2020
Mauro Ferreira das Neves, migrant laborer, burning and clearing the land on farms around Grande Sertão Veredas National Park, Brazil, 2001

2 AUGUST 2020
Akuot Nyibol (pregnant at center) with her daughter Athok Duom, who is recovering from malaria, and her sister Riak Warabek, Sudanese refugee camp, Lokichoggio, Kenya, 1992

3 AUGUST 2020
Labhuben, child bride, outskirts of Chandigarh, India, 2008

4 AUGUST 2020
Seynab Azir Wardeere, Asylum Seekers’ Center, Osdorp, the Netherlands, 2000

Ramadan night, streets of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2000

Notes on the authors
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  • The Moon Is Behind Us
  • Dedication
  • Introduction
  • Images and Letters
  • Notes on the text
  • Notes on the photographs
  • Notes on the authors
  • Acknowledgements
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