Contact Sheet 114 The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan by FazalSheikh, Jeffrey Hoone Paperback, 16 Pages, Published 2001 by Light Work, Robert B. Menschel Media Center ISBN-13: 978-0-935445-23-7, ISBN: 0-935445-23-4
"A selection of images from "The Victor Weeps", published by Scalo in 1998. This smaller exhibition catalogue was produced collaboratively by the Volkart Foundation, Steidl Publishers, Light Work, and Fazal Sheik as a part of the International Human Rights Series. Both the book and the exhibition use narratives and pictures to unfold the conflicts that have ravaged the country and the people of Afghanistan over the past twenty years."
FazalSheikh(1st Edition) A Camel for the Son by FazalSheikh Hardcover, 124 Pages, Published 2002 by Volkart Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-9707613-0-9, ISBN: 0-9707613-0-9
"Portraits taken in the 1990s of Somali refugees in camps in Kenya. This book was the first in a series of projects intended to further awareness of international human rights issues. Sheikh was a winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2005. Self-published with assistance from Steidl/Volkart Foundation, 2001. 128 pages; 79 duo-toned b&w plates; 6.5 x 9 inches. Laid-in is a 16-page pamphlet with photographic covers with the text translat ..."
"Contact Sheet 173: 40 Artists / 40 Years marks Light Works 40th Anniversary and is released in conjunction with the exhibition 40 Artists / 40 Years: Selections from the Light Work Collection, featuring Carrie Mae Weems, Cindy Sherman, John Gossage, James Casebere, Jim Goldberg, Dawoud Bey, Fazal Sheikh, and Hank Willis Thomas, to name just a few. Light Work, an artist-run, non-profit organization, has been providing direct support to e ..."
"Retreat and regroup; hide, wait, watch, plan your next move. Stay alive. Fight or flight leads directly into the heart of the literary nervous system. Captivating work from Tanya Jacob Knox, Dylan Landis, Ashraf Zaghal, Idra Novey, Ed Taylor... Just to name a few. We hope you enjoy this issue and that, in some way, it brings out the fight in you. What will you find in this issue of TLR? Everything you didn't know you should read. TLR: R ..."
"The photographer\'s breakthrough debut collection. Now considered a contemporary photography classic. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A handsome production by Fazal Sheikh and Scalo Publishers"
"The photographer's third and most stunning collection. A splendid production: Two-volume set. Rich black pictorial cloth boards with red titles on spine. Several hundred copies of the two books, which are intended by the photographer to be sold together despite the genuine difference in tone of each volume, were distributed to Dutch parliamentarians, judges, mayors and the media in an effort to create a policy more sympathetic to all as ..."
FazalSheikh(1st Edition) Portraits by FazalSheikh, Eduardo Cadava Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Steidl ISBN-13: 978-3-86521-819-3, ISBN: 3-86521-819-9
"'The portrait' is central to Fazal Sheikhs work. For more than two decades, as he has worked in different communities around the world, the invitation to sit for a portrait has been one of the principle means by which he has established a link with his subjects and been allowed to enter and document their lives. Often these have been people in crisis: displaced from their homes and their countries, at risk from violence, poverty and pre ..."
FazalSheikh(1st Edition) Ladli by FazalSheikh Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 2007 by Steidl/Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris ISBN-13: 978-3-86521-381-5, ISBN: 3-86521-381-2
"In India it costs a poor family 50 rupees to hire a midwife to oversee the birth of a child. For an additional 10 rupees, the parents are assured that the birth of a girl will be met with an act of infanticide by the midwife. The alternative for many is an institution like the Delhi orphanage, in which Fazal Sheikh's work on the predicament of the girl-child in India begins--and 99 percent of that orphanage's population are girls. Girl ..."
"The Erasure Trilogy explores the anguish caused by the loss of memory-by forgetting, amnesia or suppression-and the resulting human desire to preserve memory, all seen through the prism of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Memory Trace, the first book in the trilogy, depicts the ruins caused by the Arab-Israeli War of 1948: portraits of those traumatized by violence, devastated landscapes and fragments of buildings. This visual poem sug ..."
FazalSheikh(1st Edition) Ether by FazalSheikh Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2013 by Steidl ISBN-13: 978-3-86930-653-7, ISBN: 3-86930-653-X
"The pictures in Ether, Sheikh's first book in colour, were made as a way to honour the experience of death and to try to comprehend its significance. Benares (Varanasi) is one of Indias sacred cities, where many Hindus come to die in the belief that they will find salvation. As he walked its streets by night, Sheikh observed sleeping figures, shrouded in blankets, lost to an oblivion that seemed, in that holy city, to offer a simulacrum ..."
"Poor Afghanistan. A historical crossroads far away from the world's centers of power, the country has alternately been conquered, fought over by one superpower after another, and ignored. In the 1920s, Afghanistan's rulers embarked on a sweeping program of modernization that, among other things, allowed for at least some measure of civil rights for women. A half century later, after the politically moderate king Nadir Shah was overthrow ..."
FazalSheikh(1st Edition) The Circle by FazalSheikh, Göttingen 2008. Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2008 by Steidl ISBN-13: 978-3-86521-599-4, ISBN: 3-86521-599-8
"New York-born photographer and activist Fazal Sheikh closely crops his subjects' faces, making their eyes the central focus of the frame, in turn forcing his viewers to face them. He captures portraits of communities around the world in an effort to bridge the gap between the diversity of human experience and the often-insurmountable differences in opportunity. This volume focuses on photographs of women, taken in India over the past fi ..."
FazalSheikh Moksha (International Human Rights) by FazalSheikh Hardcover, 278 Pages, Published 2005 by Steidl ISBN-13: 978-3-86521-125-5, ISBN: 3-86521-125-9
"For five hundred years the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India has been a haven for India's dispossessed widows. Cast out by their families and condemned by strict marital laws which deny them legal, economic and, in extreme cases, even human rights, they have made their way to the city to worship at its temples and live in its ashrams, surviving on charitable hand-outs or begging on the streets. In Vrindavan they worship the young ..."
""The Transformation of This World Depends on You" focuses on two related stories: the missionary vision of Amherst College in its early days and the legacy of that vision in the present. Founded in Massachusetts in 1820, Amherst's original charter was "to educate pious indigent young men of promising talents and hopeful piety ... with a sole view to the Christian ministry." For more than a century, young Amherst graduates travelled-many ..."
"The Transformation of This World Depends on You focuses on two related stories: the missionary vision of Amherst College in its early days and the legacy of that vision in the present. Founded in Massachusetts in 1820, Amherst's original charter was "to educate pious indigent young men of promising talents and hopeful piety with a sole view to the Christian ministry." For more than a century, young Amherst graduates travelled-many wit ..."
"This book is the result of a friendship forged through art and their shared desire to collaborate on issues larger than themselves in a world broken and beautiful."
"Sheikh follows in the footsteps of a great tradition of documentary photography, seeking to reflect the realities of the most underprivileged peoples of different third world countries. His meticulously composed, vivid black and white portraits that are taken from a classical frontal perspective reveal the inherent humanity of his subjects. Documenting works presented as part of a major retrospective of the photographer, this stunning a ..."
"With Cole's words and Sheikh's photos we are confronted with fundamental and newly necessary questions of co-existence: Who is my neighbor? Who is kin to me? Who is a stranger? What does it mean to be human?"