The project is set within further analysis of the problems of dams, appropriation of water from the Tigris and denial of the rights of the Kurdish people. A photo report shot in Hasankeyf, in southeast Turkey,
The project is set within further analysis of the problems of dams, appropriation of water from the Tigris and denial of the rights of the Kurdish people. A photo report shot in Hasankeyf, in southeast Turkey, sponsored by CeVi, the Gorizia provincial authorities and the Centro Balducci: in conjunction with the 5th World Water Forum in Istanbul.
I therefore gave a face to the town of Hasankeyf by taking photo portraits of the residents oof this ancient village on the banks of the Tigris, in once Assyrian and Byzantine Mesopotamia, where the cultures of central Asia and Persia met those of Europe.
The mostly Kurdish population of Hasankeyf today numbers five thousand. A community where life is in the balance since when, in 1954, the Ilisu dam project came into being which submerged Hasankeyf under 30 metres of water.
