From the Collection: Portaits of Afghan Women

Portraits of Afghan Women is a temporary public art display on the Max Webber Library windows.

In these portraits 3 generations of Afghan women in Blacktown are represented; Maryam, her mother Rahna and her daughter Zainab. The final portrait in the series is of Halima.

These portraits proudly form part of the Blacktown City Art Collection and celebrate Afghan Women on the Move.

The photographs were taken by Gerrie Mifsud for the 2018 exhibition Daneha (Seeds) at the Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre. The exhibition explored the displacement of the Afghan community across the globe, and the cultivation of roots in foreign, unfamiliar soil.