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Harriet
Logan photographs of Afghanistan
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above, left
Kabul, 1997.
Street Market.
above, right
Kabul, 1997.
Two women hold their burkhas
close to their faces to aid better vision. At the time this picture was made,
photography was illegal and in order to work on the street Logan had to
shoot without looking. The Talib in the background watches her carefully.
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Kabul, 1997. Marina.
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above, left
Kabul, 1997. Shafika worked illegally as a
carpet maker to support her ailing mother, daughter and her deceased brother's
three children. Her husband had died fifteen years earlier. The Taliban
forbid women from working and through their rule she and her family lived
in constant fear that she would be found out and punished.
above, center
Kabul, 1997. Burkhas are re-dyed every so often
when their color fades. Each has a heart-shaped tag so the owner can identify it.
above, right
Kabul, 2001. During a food distribution by a local
charity a woman shows her face, something she would never have done under
Taliban rule.
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Kabul, 2001.
Soap on sale on
the street. Showing women's faces on packaging or otherwise came under
the following Taliban decree: To prevent Idolatry. In vehicles,
shops, hotels, rooms and any other place pictures/portraits should be
abolished. The monitors should tear up all pictures in the above places.
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above, left
Kabul, 2001. Another forbidden pastime was
watching television. As the city finds its freedom, many have taken to
making satellite dishes out of old tin cans.
above, right
Kabul, 2001.To prevent keeping pigeons and
playing with birds. Within ten days this habit/hobby should stop. After
ten days this should be monitored and the pigeons and any other playing
birds should be killed.
-Taliban decree released after the capture of
Kabul in 1996.
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Kabul, 2001. A street stall
openly selling posters of Indian movie stars. Pictures like this were
forbidden by the Taliban.
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Kabul, 2001. A car riddled with bullet holes lies
on its roof under building rubble. On it is written UXO, which stands
for 'Unexploded Ordinance.'
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Kabul, 2001. The old cinema in the heart of Kabul.
Huge areas of the city are completely decimated.
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Jalalabad, 2001. A destroyed helicopter on an Army base.
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Kabul, 2001. The remains of a street market in
an area of the city which suffered sustained periods of fighting. The
white crosses indicate that here mines have been cleared.
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Jalalabad, 2001. The countryside bears the evidence
of many years of war along with the more recent allied bombing raids.
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Jalalabad, 2001. During its raids against the Taliban,
America dropped thousands of cluster bombs, many of which remain dangerously
unexploded. These bombs were the same color as the food packages which were
also dropped.
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Kabul, 2001. Inside one
of the old palaces, a child has drawn images of war on a wall.
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Kabul, 2001.
"My name is Sanam and my doll with the black hair is Sadaf.
I am nine years old. Now I can walk around with my doll with
no fear, but only one month ago, when the Taliban were here,
I had to hide my doll behind my back because if they had found her,
they would have beaten me."
above, right
Jalalabad, 1997.
Fahrida was seven years old when she lost her leg in a Mujahideen
rocket attack. The two children she was playing with lost their lives.
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above, top left
Kabul, 2001. For five years these girls attended
an illegal home school in the attic of a teacher's home. There they learned
to read and write-every day they risked beatings from the Taliban as they came
secretly to their classes. Just one week after the Taliban left Kabul, the girls
are free to play together, openly and without fear, in the grounds of their school.
above, top right
Kabul, 1997. Roya is Shafika's daughter. "I was ten
years old when the Taliban came, I don't remember much about the time before.
I was told that they would not let me go to school anymore. That made me
feel very sad."
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Kabul, 2001. Attending Latifa's home school legally
for the first time in five years. Her teacher says, "I am very optimistic
about our future. We are like a new baby, and we still believe, after all
these years, that peace will come."
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Kabul, 1997. In a snow-covered back street of the
city, Aquela lifts her burkha above her face so she can see her way. In doing so,
she has defied a strictly enforced Taliban rule.
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Kabul, 1997. Jamila
and Fersitta are too frightened to be photographed with their faces
showing.
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Kabul, 2001.
A woman browses through a collection of posters and
postcards of Indian movie stars. Images such as these
were forbidden by the Taliban.
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Kabul, 2001. Huge areas of Kabul
are barely standing after so many years of war.
This part of the city is also heavily mined and it
will take many years of work to make them safe.
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Kabul, 2001.
Kabul landscape from the city limits.
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Kabul, 1997. The road into the city.
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all photographs are © Harriet Logan, 2003
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