Afghanistan

Afghanistan – Touch Down in Flight [Video]

As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan. We hope the pictures you know will merge with the pictures you see and will enrich your [...]

A Day in an Afghan Market [Gallery]

It is not easy to photograph the market. It is hard to overcome the allure of genre scenes, the charm of exoticism, the commonplaces of orientalism, the temptation to grasp this whole buzz at once, and in the end nothing remains in our hands. This time the star of Russian press photo, Ilya Varlamov did [...]

How the War in Afghanistan has Changed Buzkashi

Buzkashi© isafmedia Carl Hoffman at ESPN The Magazine (via WorldHum) gives a fascinating history of how U.S. invasion has changed Buzkashi, the national sport which involves men on horses battling over a dead goat. The game is a microcosm of the country, a tangled web of patronage and allegiances, of great wealth, chaos and brutality. [...]

Photo of the Moment: Kabul Kids, Afghanistan

Buzkashi: Afghanistan’s Bloody National Sport

Buzkashi is Afghanistan’s national sport: it involves whips, horses, and a dead calf. The calf itself has been beheaded, cut off the knees, soaked in cold water for twenty-four hours to make it tough, and occasionally filled with sand. It is placed into a shallow hole, and a circle of quicklime is drawn nearby: this [...]