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Kashmir. Wait & See

Cédric Gerbehaye

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August 30 to September 14, 2025

10am to 8pm

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Since the partition of the Indian subcontinent, which was hastily decided in 1947, Kashmir has become one of the most militarized regions in the world, and the scene of numerous wars between India and Pakistan. Between 2017 and 2024, Cédric Gerbehaye documented both sides of the Line of Control, a border which is not internationally recognized, in the heart of a mountainous region characterized by geopolitical complexity and cultural diversity.

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On March 28, 2017, when he was 16, Farzan Sheikh was shot in the left eye by an Indian policeman with a pellet gun in his neighborhood in Srinagar, in Indian-administered Kashmir. Farzan was an unwitting victim again in August of the same year, when pellets blinded his right eye.

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Villagers have come to offer their condolences and pray with the family of an elderly person who has died in the village of Yasin in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The population of the Yasin valley is predominantly Ismaili, and their spiritual leader is the Aga Khan.

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Shkoor, 55, a gold prospector, has just finished working with his sieve in the Ishkoman River near the village of Pakora, Ghizer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Recent Chinese investment in the region as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is likely to boost industrial mining in the region.

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