Imagining the frontier: calm and turbulence in eastern Afghanistan
Exhibition of photographs by Tobias Marschall, anthropologist and photographer specializing in the Pamir region.
Some photographs by Marc Brédif, a student of Persian and Urdu at Inalco and amateur photographer, will be on display.
Some photographs by Marc Brédif, a student of Persian and Urdu at Inalco and amateur photographer, will be on display.
The Afghan Pamirs appear as an anomaly on maps: cul-de-sac, ultimate frontier, refuge or roof of the world, even. These representations of their isolation stem from more than a century of scientific exploration, military intervention, humanitarian aid and (more recently) tourism.
The Afghan Pamirs are thus revealed as a timeless place, because they are off the beaten track. Their remoteness evokes the permanence of a past time, threatened to disappear with each new intervention.
Exhibition organized in parallel with the symposium "Les visages du Pamir : la montagne vécue, habitée, parlée".
