Monsoons never cross the mountains
Pasquarelli Camillo
Witty Kiwi Books
English Text.
Torino, 2020; paperback, pp. 84, b/w and col. plates, cm 16,5x23,5.
EAN13: 9791280177025
Subject: Photography
Period: 1800-1960 (XIX-XX) Modern Period,1960- Contemporary Period
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Weight: 1 kg
Despite the unpredictable new season of protests, repression and martyrs, the situation has still not changed. The systematic violation of human rights perpetrated by Indian security forces has filled the hearts of Kashmiri men and women with disillusionment, resentment and sorrow. It's a collective grief pushing towards peculiar religious practices, in a desperate search for respite: the veneration of those who sacrificed their lives for the pursuit of Azadi becomes the prosecution of the popular cult of dead Sufi saints. "Monsoons never cross the mountains" is a visual journey through the struggle of the Kashmiri people, trapped in an endless season of sorrow while waiting for the spring of Azadi. It is an attempt to depict the emotional landscape of the valley of Kashmir through the eyes of children, entangled in this cycle from the very beginning of their life.