Love Letters to Sudan

“Sudan is one of the oldest civilizations on earth. It is also one of the least understood.”

Across more than 200 photographs, Love Letters to Sudan documents a country of extraordinary depth and geographical range. What does one discover here? The pyramids of Meroë rising from the Saharan plain. The confluence of the Blue and White Nile at Khartoum, where two of the world's great rivers meet in slow, ancient union. The highlands of Darfur, one of Africas oldest volcanoes, cloaked in mist above the Sahel. The coral shores of the Red Sea. The sacred granite peaks of the eastern Beja. The faces and ceremonies of a nation comprising more than 500 distinct ethnic groups and one  of the most genetically diverse human populations on the planet.

Sudan is home to more pyramids than anywhere else on earth. For two thousand years the Kushite Empire raised them here, its pharaohs ruling Egypt, its queens driving Rome back into the desert and burying the head of Augustus Caesar beneath their feet. This is that land.

Abir Ibrahim began this work in 2014. After a decade of travel across all eighteen states of Sudan, Love Letters to Sudan stands as a landmark visual document  of a country too often reduced, and rarely seen in its full complexity.