Rawsht Twana, Twana's Box: The Photographic Life of Twana Abdullah

Twana's Box: The Photographic Life of Twana Abdullah

Rawsht Twana

Publisher
Fraglich Publishing
Year
2024
ISBN
978-3-9505064-4-0
Specifications
Hardcover with eight fold-outs
20 x 26 cm
252 pages
English, Kurdish and Arabic
First edition of 800 copies
Foreword by Rawsht Twana and Bakhtyar Ali
Shortlisted, Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards 2024

A journey through a rare archive documenting the Kurdistan region of Iraq between 1974 and 1992, and at the same time a son's search for his lost father, the photographer Twana Abdullah, who was murdered. The box of negatives he left behind holds a portrait of a region through years of war and displacement, and the volume reads it as both a public and a private record.

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