ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Walking through Dushanbe/Tajikistan in March 2022, I met this lady who was sitting with her husband and daughter on a bench in a park . We greeted and when they heard I can speak Persian, they invited me to sit with them. They were Afghan refugees now living in Dushanbe. I didn't ask about her journey to Tajikistan nor about her experience in Afghanistan or where exactly they came from. Instead, I asked whether she allowed me to take her photo after a little chat. The portrait I took of her seems so full of facets to me, stories of happy moments and of grief, and it conveys a strong sense of warmth, resolve, understanding and endurance in my eyes. A face that safeguarding the secrets of the stories of her life.

AUTHOR
Dr. Alamir is a political scientist by education and has been working in security policy and international development contexts for more than twenty years. In the wake of numerous business and private travels to Europe, Asia and Africa, she developed a keen interest in photojournalism, people and landscape photography. Around 2010, she assumed a more ambitious approach to photography and has been working to improve by professional standards ever since. Since 2017, she has won several honorable mentions in international photo competitions, among others several honorable mentions of the International Monoawards and the 1st prize (Discovery of the Year) 2019 of the Tokyo International Foto Awards.

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