Hadija and her Father, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya
The clan-based fighting that broke out in Somalia in 1991 soon spread to the country’s western border. By early 1993, 500,000 Somalis had fled into Kenya, some 55,000 of them seeking refuge in a camp near the city of Mandera. Sheikh was moved to make portraits of parents and children in the camp when a Kenyan doctor attributed the refugees’ desperate practice of smothering malnourished infants to "the essentially callous and aggressive nature of the Somalis."
Artwork Details
- Title: Hadija and her Father, Somali Refugee Camp, Mandera, Kenya
- Artist: Fazal Sheikh (American, born 1965)
- Date: 1993
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: 53.2 x 44.7 cm (20 15/16 x 17 5/8 in. )
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1996
- Object Number: 1996.324.1
- Rights and Reproduction: Ⓒ Fazal Sheikh; courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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