For further information about the show and the private gallery’s location please contact Sharq at sharqart@verizon.net or 310 459 6041.
Photographer Bussian has spent much of the last 25 years documenting the plight of refugees around the globe. He first went to Afghanistan in May, 2001 when the Taliban gave him permission to “show the world the real Afghanistan.”
The 16 by 24 inch, framed color photographs, taken over the last decade, focus on the daily life and what the photographer calls the humanity, strength, and resilience of the remarkable people of Afghanistan during these troubled years of war, destruction, and displacement.
Bussian will give a talk and share some of his experiences in Afghanistan, which he has visited every year during the past decade to document the continuing struggle of a people who have known nothing but war for thirty years during the September 10, 2011 reception.
Bussian has worked in more than twenty countries and has been commissioned by aid organizations such as the UN, The International Rescue Committee, CARE, Action Contre La Faim. His photographs have appeared in many media outlets, including the New York Times and Paris-Match. They have also been shown on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
He is the recipient of awards from the International Photography Awards (Lucies) and Interaction. Bussian also frequently works as a media advisor to international organizations such as the UN, various NGOs, and some foreign governments.
Bussian received a BA in philosophy from the University of Colorado and studied film at the Anthropology Film Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Currently he is developing a feature film project set in Afghanistan.
Sharq, which means East in both Farsi and Arabic, features artists, writers and film makers who are either from North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, or whose works focus on that part of the world. In the past seven years the gallery has hosted events exhibitions, readings, and concerts dealing with Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Armenia, Afghanistan, Mauritania, and the Kurdish region of Iraq.
