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Famine Crisis, Wajid, Somalia, 1992

Peter Turnley

Artwork Details

Famine Crisis, Wajid, Somalia, 1992
1992
Peter Turnley
archival pigment print on paper
13 ¼ x 20 in. (33.66 x 50.8 cm);20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
Gift of Kathleen Lauster and Jarir Derouach
2016/2.530

Description

Physical Description:

A color photograph of malnourished children, one of whom stares directly at the viewer. He wears a tattered striped shirt and sits with his knees up. To the right, another child holds a smaller one.

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