A tiny exhibition, but an excellent one, is on at the reopened Courtauld Gallery and included in the general entry ticket. This is of Anthony Kersting’s 1946 and 1948 photos in Kurdistan, which mainly focused on the Yazidi population.
This was interesting as Kersting was an architectural photographer and this was the only time he seems to have taken portraits.
There are still a number of architectural photos that Kersting took – interesting in part because ISIL has since destroyed the palaces and tombs of earlier civilisations and in part because the stepped, conical towers of local mausoleums reminded me of Zoroastrian structures that I’d recently read about – but it’s the portraits that are really interesting.
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