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Photographing Afghanistan: Comparing McCurry and Bronstein
Sean Sheehan

Photographing Afghanistan: Comparing McCurry and Bronstein

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Jan 30, 2018
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Apr 20, 2022
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Mujahideen atop a mountain. Logar Province, Afghanistan, 1984. The road at the bottom of the mountain links two provinces, affording these fighters the ability to see government vehicles passing below their observation point.
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Man on Donkey. Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan, 2006. © Steve McCurry / Magnum Photos
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Orange Seller, Kabul, Afghanistan, 2003. This burnt-out husk of a building used to be a local police station. It is scene drained of any warmth. Yet, arranged on the ashen trunk of the car, the oranges seem to generate their own heat. With the boy's daily survival dependent on selling these meager goods, the intense color of the fruit connotes their special value.
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An elderly man holds his granddaughter in their tent at a refugee camp. They were forced to flee their village after U.S. and NATO forces bombed it because, they claimed, it was a Taliban hideout. Surobi, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Feb. 7, 2009. © Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
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Mahbooba stands against a bullet-ridden wall, waiting to be seen at a medical clinic. The 7-year-old girl suffers from leishmaniasis, a parasitical infection. Kabul, Afghanistan. March 1, 2002. © Paula Bronstein/Getty Images
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Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear presents a photographic portrait of this war-torn country's people across more than a decade. With empathy born of the challenges of being an American female photojournalist working in a conservative Islamic country, Bronstein gives voice to those Afghans, particularly women and children, rendered silent during the violent Taliban regime.
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