Stephen Dupont – Afghanistan: The Perils of Freedom 1993-2009
Stephen Dupont – Afghanistan: The Perils of Freedom 1993-2009
- US Marines, 2ND Battilion, Echo CO., on weapons search in Asadabad, Afghanistan, August/September 20052005 © Stephen DUPONT (CONTACT PRESS IMAGES)
15 October – 20 November 2010
Over the past 15 years I have been documenting the human condition of war and the ever-changing face of Afghan society: from the battlefields, to the graves, refugees, child labour and the rise of the Taliban. The life of Afghanistan’s national hero Ahmed Shah Massoud; to the current US-led War on Terror and a spiralling narcotic’s disaster.
I wanted to be the eyes and voice of the Afghan people, to capture the horrors and beauty of this sad and alien land.
This is their story.
- An Afghan woman refugee walks through Shamsatoo Refugee Camp near Peshawar, Pakistan. January 01.
- An anymous portrait of a man in Kabul using an Afghan photographer’s street studio backdrop, 2006. AFGHANISTAN