RAMADAN IN YEMEN - Max Pam
" What could I say about Yemen that did it justice. I tried in my diary to work honestly. I tried with 60 rolls of 120 black and white film to translate the experience. This hot, spare and beautiful Ramadan.
Do not eat or drink anything between sunrise and sunset. The faithful wait for the moment. Cannons fire from the mosque at the end of the day. KABOUMMM and a frenzy of quat-buying, tea-drinking and food-eating begins in suqs and squares and oases and towns all over the country. Everyone happy, happy to laugh and joke sitting together as a nation.
And you know what, people have always wanted me to share and be part of their Ramadan, their community, their Yemen. I've traveled with them all over the country. In Shibam, Taizz, Al Mukallah, Sanaa, on the desert, by the sea and in the mountains. The shared cabs were always half-dead Peugeot 405s, with sometimes 10 or 12 people trapped in them.
The 92 pages of this book give my version of this unforgettable month of Ramadan. An experience offered to me free of charge by the generosity of the Yemeni people. " - Max Pam, Yemen Journals, 1993.
Boxed set - Published by Éditions Bessard, 2010 (signed and numbered)
25 cm x 25 cm, 90 pages, very good condition
ISBN 978-295372040-2
" What could I say about Yemen that did it justice. I tried in my diary to work honestly. I tried with 60 rolls of 120 black and white film to translate the experience. This hot, spare and beautiful Ramadan.
Do not eat or drink anything between sunrise and sunset. The faithful wait for the moment. Cannons fire from the mosque at the end of the day. KABOUMMM and a frenzy of quat-buying, tea-drinking and food-eating begins in suqs and squares and oases and towns all over the country. Everyone happy, happy to laugh and joke sitting together as a nation.
And you know what, people have always wanted me to share and be part of their Ramadan, their community, their Yemen. I've traveled with them all over the country. In Shibam, Taizz, Al Mukallah, Sanaa, on the desert, by the sea and in the mountains. The shared cabs were always half-dead Peugeot 405s, with sometimes 10 or 12 people trapped in them.
The 92 pages of this book give my version of this unforgettable month of Ramadan. An experience offered to me free of charge by the generosity of the Yemeni people. " - Max Pam, Yemen Journals, 1993.
Boxed set - Published by Éditions Bessard, 2010 (signed and numbered)
25 cm x 25 cm, 90 pages, very good condition
ISBN 978-295372040-2
" What could I say about Yemen that did it justice. I tried in my diary to work honestly. I tried with 60 rolls of 120 black and white film to translate the experience. This hot, spare and beautiful Ramadan.
Do not eat or drink anything between sunrise and sunset. The faithful wait for the moment. Cannons fire from the mosque at the end of the day. KABOUMMM and a frenzy of quat-buying, tea-drinking and food-eating begins in suqs and squares and oases and towns all over the country. Everyone happy, happy to laugh and joke sitting together as a nation.
And you know what, people have always wanted me to share and be part of their Ramadan, their community, their Yemen. I've traveled with them all over the country. In Shibam, Taizz, Al Mukallah, Sanaa, on the desert, by the sea and in the mountains. The shared cabs were always half-dead Peugeot 405s, with sometimes 10 or 12 people trapped in them.
The 92 pages of this book give my version of this unforgettable month of Ramadan. An experience offered to me free of charge by the generosity of the Yemeni people. " - Max Pam, Yemen Journals, 1993.
Boxed set - Published by Éditions Bessard, 2010 (signed and numbered)
25 cm x 25 cm, 90 pages, very good condition
ISBN 978-295372040-2
