August 21st, 2006, Haret Hreik, Daahia, south Beirut, Lebanon

August 21st, 2006, Haret Hreik, Daahia, south Beirut, Lebanon

Photograph

Rita Leistner

Maker
Canadian, b. 1964

August 21st, 2006, Haret Hreik, Daahia, south Beirut, Lebanon

2006
Chromogenic development print
Image: 14 × 29 15/16 in. (35.5 × 76 cm)
Overall: 18 1/2 × 34 5/8 in. (47 × 88 cm)
Gift of the photographer, 2010
2007.0003.0001
Inscriptions [verso inaccessible]
Text19 year old Malak Kasim, recently engaged to be married, on the terrace of her family’s apartment in Haret Hreik. “Malak loves her room,” her mother Sausan said. “The walls are broken, but she still insists on sleeping there.”

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