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Book - Afghanistan 

Chris Steele-Perkins 

"Afghanistan" is a collaboration by the photographer Chris Steele-Perkins and the Afghan poet Sayd Bahodine Majrouh. Steele-Perkins has created a profoundly personal homage and celebration of Afghanistan, a place he visited numerous times in the course of five years. "It was heroic, beautiful, violent, twisted, gracious, and tragic," Steele-Perkins explains. "The experience of being there works its way into one's being; an infection of the soul demanding that you return." Throughout that time, the country was ravaged by a succession of wars, as it continues to be today. Steele-Perkins has sought... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Sunset outside Jalalabad. 1994. 

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Afghanistan. Taloquan. Child in doorway. 1998. 

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Afghanistan. Donkeys crossing river on a viaduct. 1998. 

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Afghanistan. Carrying hay back from the fields outside Jalalabad.... 

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Afghanistan. Child being pulled from path of Donkey. 1998. 

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Afghanistan. Cock fight in Kabul. 1994. 

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Mujahadeen play volleyball in a park. 1994. 

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Afghanistan. Breakfast in roadside tea-house. 1998. 

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Afghanistan. Lapis Lazuli mine in Koran Monjan. 1998. 

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Afghanistan. Rebuilding market in Taloquan after bombing by Taliban... 

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Afghanistan. Kabul. ICRC build all the prosthesis for Afghanistan... 

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Afghanistan. Kabul. Disabled man.1994. 

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AFGHANISTAN. Schoolgirls in Mazar Sharif. In Taliban areas girls... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kandahar. A female doctor uncovers her face inside,... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Village butchers shop. 1996 

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AFGHANSITAN. Kabul. Women in Bourkas. In the background is destruction... 

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Afghanistan. Kabul. About half of Kabul is in ruins, this area... 

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Afghanistan. Buskashi players. 1995. 

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AFGHANISTAN. Group of Taliban fighters outside Kabul. 1995. 

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Afghanistan. Tanks on the road. 1996. 

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Road block at Serobi on the way to Kabul. This area is controlled... 

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Demazing district. A government fighter peers round ruins towards... 

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Afghanistan. Kabul. Displaced families live in empty schools... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. The government still maintains an orphanage... 

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Afghanistan. Kabul. 1994. Weekly bathing for children in the... 

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Displaced families live in empty schools in overcrowded, smoky,... 

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Afghanistan. Kabul. Jalalabad. Part of New Hadar camp for people... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Refugees outside Mazar Sharif. 1996. 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. Trying out artificial limbs at ICRC clinic... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Photography studio in street.1996 

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AFGHANISTAN. Men praying. 1996 

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Making nan bread. 1994

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AFGHANISTAN. Village blacksmiths using a furnace. 1998 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. Knife sharpening. 1996. 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. Man walking past photographer's shop. 1994.... 

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Afghanistan. Kabul. Street barber. 1996. 

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Afghanistan. Kabul. Store well stocked with fresh veg. 1994. 

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Afghanistan. Children on a roundabout - Taloquan. 1998. 

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Afghanistan. Gambling on which egg is the hardest - Taloquan.... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Street sellers. Melons. 1996 

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Despite the war, traditions remain strong, and a middle class... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Anti-Taliban forces clean new Ak-47 rifles. 1996.... 

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Afghanistan. Forces of warlord General Dostum on their way to... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Taliban fighters move against Masood's forces. 1996.... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Taliban fighters take refuge behind armour as they... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Taliban taken prisoner praying. 1996. 

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Afghanistan. Bringing wounded out of a building after mortar... 

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Afghanistan. War wounded being treated in makeshift clinic. 1996.... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Family re-union after a 5 year seperation. 1996... 

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AFGHANISTAN. The Taliban have lost a lot of support since they... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. Taking cover during attack on the Taliban... 

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AFGHANISTAN. Outside Masar Sharif. 1996. 

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Afghanistan. Kabul. Woman whose home has been destroyed. 1996.... 

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Afghanistan. Landslide caused by earthquake near Shahr-e-Bozorg.... 

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Afghanistan. Lapis Lazuli miners take a rest. 1998. 

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Afghanistan. Bringing Mulberries to market district. 1998. 

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Afghanistan. Takhar district. Opium poppy heads secrete raw Opium... 

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Afghanistan. Harvesting. 1996. 

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Afghanistan. Outside teahouse. 1998. 

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Afghanistan. Bahrak. Entrance to a small shop. 1998. 
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