Showcase: Lifting the Veil, Part Way – Lens

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Showcase: Lifting the Veil, Part Way

Under their face veils, Catalina Martin-Chico has found four Yemeni sisters who indulge in hip-hop, blue jeans and lipstick, as Kerri MacDonald reports.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/showcase-118/

Hip-hop. Blue jeans. Lipstick. Dreams of moving away.

The photojournalist Catalina Martin-Chico came face to face with all these things during her visits with four sisters in Sana, the capital of Yemen. Many scenes that Ms. Martin-Chico captured were not just personal but private; too private even to include in a photo essay titled “Beyond the Veil.”