Diane Farris Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of a new series of selectively toned black and white photographs by Phil Borges.
In July of 2001 Borges traveled to the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan to visit a small group of people called the Kalash. Now numbering just under three thousand the Kalash represent one of the last non-Islamic minorities in Pakistan and live in the rugged Hindu Kush Mountains near the Afghan border.
For the past three years Borges has been visiting and photographing various tribal and indigenous cultures whose beliefs encourage a communication with the spirits of ancestors, animals, forests, lakes, mountains, and other elements of the natural world. The people in these cultures are usually referred to as 'Animists' or 'Pagans' and their spiritual mediators as Shamans. The photographs exhibited in The Face of Pakistan continue to explore the many facets of Shamans and Animists.
On Friday March 8th Phil will present a slide presentation on his travels. A speaker in much demand, and as a host and subject of several television travel and adventure documentaries, Phil's always "sold out" lecture will this year be "tickets by donation" in aid of the Children of Afghanistan.
