Zifa Tsirikhova, Beslan, North Ossetia
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Zifa Tsirikhova, Beslan, North Ossetia
In September 2004 Chechen separatists from Ingushetia attached School Number One in Beslan where they took more than 1100 people hostage. The siege ended after three days in a battle between Russian security forces and Chechen rebels
that killed 330 people, half of them children.
Zifa Tsirikhova's eight-year-old son Alexander died in her arms as a result of shrapnel wounds from one of the explosions. Her second son survived the attack.
Motherland
April 2005
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 22.7 x 18.2 cm
Overall: 25.3 x 20.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0100
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 308 +3 +0 +0 +0 308.tif (1) 10:26:28
(printed in black): Spectrum 2007/05/22 308 +3 +0 +0 +0 308.tif (1) 10:26:28
