Faces of Afghanistan


We ALL are one!! … “In Afghanistan, you don’t understand yourself
solely as an individual. You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a
cousin to somebody, an uncle to somebody. You are part of something bigger than yourself. – Khaled Hosseini … “

Steve McCurry Curated

Kabul, Afghanistan

A landscape might be denuded, a human settlement abandoned or lost, but always, just beneath the ground lies history of preposterous grandeur. They are everywhere, these individuals of undaunted humankind, irrepressibly optimistic and proud.
The Carpet Wars, Christopher Kremmer

Nuristan, Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan

Pol-e-Khomri, Afghanistan

Yet even at their most turbulent, the Afghans have tended to impress travellers withtheir dignity and hospitality
as much as their fierce independence.
– William Dalrymple, author of
Return of a King:The Battle for Afghanistan 1839–42

Baghlan, Afghanistan

Parwan, Afghanistan

Pol-e-Khomri, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, you don’t understand yourself
solely as an individual.
You understand yourself as a son, a brother, a
cousin to somebody,an uncle to somebody.
You are part of something bigger than yourself.
– Khaled Hosseini

Jalalabad, Afghanistan

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan

Pol-e-Khomri, Afghanistan

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

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Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan

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Kabul, Afghanistan

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Pomodori


Yummy!! … ” I was eating bread and pomodori. These tomatoes tasted nothing like English tomatoes.” — Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence.

Live & Learn

To travel is to eat. We were tucking into our lunch, which is to say Laura was munching crackers and I was eating bread and pomodori. These tomatoes tasted nothing like English tomatoes. They tasted tomatoey. I ate them one after another, the taste like a memory of childhood which actually turned out not to be a taste but a smell of taste, the reddening green smell – I had it exactly – of my Uncle Harry’s greenhouse in Shurdington where the air ripened under glass.

—  Geoff DyerOut of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence


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