Only the River Remains
Jane Baldwin


“Working behind a medium format Hasselblad, the relationship between the artist and subject is unbroken, forming a cross-cultural bridge of human understanding. The direct gaze of each woman exhibits a transparency of spirit, both vulnerable and of tremendous strength.” _Anne Veh, Curator

For one decade, Jane Baldwin has visited Ethiopia, Africa, documenting the lives of Kara women living on the Omo River through photography, video, and voice recordings. ‘Only the River Remains l KARA Women Speak’ talks with a deep immersion about women, culture, human rights and environmental issues facing the Omo River Valley in Ethiopia and the Lake Turkana watershed in Kenya. Through this book, Baldwin wanted to empower the voices of Kara women and record the dignity of their lives and tell them how they have maintained and developed their culture in difficult circumstances. The stories told by Kara women were recorded in oral language, which transcended into intimate portraits of individual lives and landscapes of the Omo River printed in the books.


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Limited Edition, 100 copies
2017
21 × 26.5 cm
Soft cover / Perfect binding
114 pages
ISBN 978-89-976052-6-2-03660

* signed and numbered
* The bookmaking process of this book is carried out with exquisite craftsmanship by Datz Books.