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Schoolgirls take an exam on the roof of their school in the Hunza valley. This region has the highest literacy rate in Pakistan. © Sarah Caron/Edition Lammerhuber |
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Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo 2023: Exhibition THE LAND OF THE PURE to 15 October 2023 festival-lagacilly-baden.photo |
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Edition Lammerhuber: Book PAKISTAN June 2023 edition.lammerhuber.at/en/books/pakistan Signing Festival VISA pour l’Image, Perpignan, France: Friday, 8 September 2023, 4:30pm |
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PAKISTAN Sarah Caron 22,5 × 27,5 cm 144 pages 72 photos English, French, German Hardcover ISBN 978-3-903101-94-4 EUR 49,90 Edition Lammerhuber June 2023 © Sarah Caron/Edition Lammerhuber |
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MORE ABOUT THE BOOK edition.lammerhuber.at/en/books/pakistan PRESS MATERIAL and REVIEW COPY Please order here: [email protected] or T +43 2252 42269
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The suspension bridge connecting the village of Hussaini with the village of Zarabad on the other side of the river Hunza was built in the 1960s. © Sarah Caron/Edition Lammerhuber |
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PAKISTAN is a retrospective show of the outstanding body of photographic work of award-winning French photographer Sarah Caron focused on the women and men of this singular nation... Sarah Caron has travelled the globe in her reportage over the past 25 years, spending time in Pakistan over the past decade for assignment of mainstream magazines, seeing and portraying the country in all its facets: from the dangerous regions where tribal lords rule to the haute couture catwalks in Karachi. |
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In the Sindh region, the Mohanas, a seafaring people with a unique relationship with birds, have managed to domesticate pelicans. © Sarah Caron/Edition Lammerhuber |
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On 27 December 2007, Benazir Bhutto, the country’s former prime minister, was assassinated in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Sarah Caron was stuck in a traffic jam by taxi at the same moment. She was on her way to an event with Bhutto and suddenly found herself in the middle of one of the most turbulent phases of the Islamic Republic. A month earlier, she had landed a commission for Time magazine with a scoop: an interview and photo shoot with Bhutto, who was then under house arrest. Pakistan is a country of which we often only see the worst, yet here Caron presents variations of the country she has travelled through from west to east, from north to south, from its vibrant and teeming megacities to the desert foothills of the Hindu Kush where huge trucks bedecked with multicoloured garlands meander along the winding roads. She has set out to meet its lesser-known populations who exist unaffected by the passing of time, like the last Kalash of Chitral, whom myths wrongly refer to as the descendants of Alexander the Great, or the Mohana, the sea lords of the Indus Valley who live on the shores of Lake Manchar where they keep their traditions alive. |
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The riders and their horses start at the speed of the wind without warming up and in a straight line, during a Tent Pegging competition. There is no prize money, but great prestige for the owner of the winning team. © Sarah Caron/Edition Lammerhuber |
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SARAH CARON is an award-winning French photographer who has travelled the globe on assignment for international magazines over the past 25 years. Sarah has always taken a very personal and unique approach to her work. She delves deep into people’s lives and takes a lot of time to convey their circumstances. Her first images taken in India depicted the exile of widows in the north of the country and earned her an exhibition at Visa pour l’Image in 1999. It was then that Caron, who was destined to become a ballet dancer, fully embraced photography and journalism. With an approach that is always sophisticated and never sensational, she is quick to cover the most interesting subjects – the ones we don’t talk about enough. In 2019, Sarah Caron was awarded by the Pulitzer Grant for Editorial Crisis Reporting. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles, in Spain, the Netherlands, France, Canada, Cuba, Cambodia, Japan, Vietnam and Pakistan and has been acquired by the Fond National d’Art Contemporain Paris, the Museum of History and Immigration Paris. She has also published six books. |
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A little Mohana girl in Sindh. Very few children from this ethnic group go to school. Little girls wear make-up and very colourful clothes. They are married at a very young age and will live on their husband’s family’s boat. © Sarah Caron/Edition Lammerhuber |
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EXHIBITION The photographs of the book can be seen in the exhibition THE LAND OF THE PURE at the Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo from June 15 to October 15. festival-lagacilly-baden.photo |
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The territory of the Kalash, a pagan community struggling to survive in isolation, lies in the Bumburet Valley in the Hindu Kush. © Sarah Caron/Edition Lammerhuber |
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