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Looking back to the past...
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Ferhat UNCT (Ferrus)
![Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 193 W: 113 N: 161]](http://i1.trekearth.com/misc/g-g-g.gif) (749) |
| Genre: People |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2006-10-11 |
| Categories: Decisive Moment |
| Exposure: f/5.6, 1/6 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Travelogue: Festival of Maxmur |
| Date Submitted: 2007-01-20 11:30 |
| Viewed: 1244 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
A paint of a creative refugee living in Kurdish Refugee Camp of Makhmur.
We talked with the paintor, a young woman in my age.
She said her idea was to paint the past.
The painful past of the refugees themselves.
To think back to the years when they got refugees in their own land.
This is why she painted an old man with a sad face that looks back (to the past).
The Festival of Makhmur is a cultural festival made for and by the Kurdish refugees living there.
They made own folklore groups, theatre performances, they sang and made an exhibition of Kurdish Art - painted by the refugees themselves.
There were also many famous Kurdish artists (Ībrahīm Rojhilat, Rojda, Xanemīr, Kawa etc.) who came from different parts of world. Just to make the refugees happy.
It was a great time...
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Mexmūr is a refugee camp for Kurds who had to escape from Turkey because of the military operations Turkish military made against the PKK in the 1980/90ies: 4000 Kurdish villages (in Turkey) got depleted and destroyed. Most of their inhabitants escaped into Iraq where the Camp of Mexmur was founded. The Festīvala Mexmūr reminds the refugees on their sad destination. |
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Nice POV and subject. I just wish it was sharper. I would have loved to have been able to see the brush strokes in the painting.
Still, a very interesting shot.
