Fazal Sheikh
Abshiro Aden Mohammed, Women’s Leader, Somali Refugee Camp, Dagahaley, Kenya

Abshiro Aden Mohammed, Women’s Leader, Somali Refugee Camp, Dagahaley, Kenya

© Fazal Sheikh

Abshiro Aden Mohammed, Women’s Leader, Somali Refugee Camp, Dagahaley, Kenya
Abshiro Aden Mohammed, Women’s Leader, Somali Refugee Camp, Dagahaley, Kenya
ArtistAmerican, born 1965
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Abshiro Aden Mohammed, Women’s Leader, Somali Refugee Camp, Dagahaley, Kenya
  • from the series A Camel for the Son
Date2000, printed 2016
Place depictedDadaab, Kenya
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 27 3/4 × 26 3/4 in. (70.5 × 67.9 cm)
Sheet: 34 3/4 × 33 3/4 in. (88.3 × 85.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Jane P. Watkins
Object number2017.42
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In 2000 Fazal Sheikh returned to some of the refugee camps where he had photographed in the early 1990s. He found some of the same people and, nearly a decade later, heard about many of the same problems plaguing the camps—particularly rape and assault against refugee women. Before he left the Dagahaley camp, Abshiro Aden Mohammed, the Women’s Leader of the refugees, said that she would like to tell him some things about the condition of Somali women, both in Somalia and in the refugee camps. She presented Sheikh with a carefully written letter that she had dictated to her son.

Listen to Fazal Sheikh read Abshiro Aden Mohammed’s letter


ProvenanceThe artist; [Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[signed verso in pencil]

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