Afghanistan
Reportage
Reportage photography from Afghanistan’s civil wars
Kabul traffic policeman
Kabul apartment building destroyed by shelling
Return of the wedding business after the fall of the Taliban
Poppy fields of Khugh Yani district in Nangahar province
Mujehadeen fighters guarding poppy fields.
All of Afghanistan's beauty parlours were closed by the Taliban
Young Afghan women dancing to the wedding band
Mujahideen playing volleyball
Kabul street kids watching a movie in an ice-cream parlour
View over Kabul during the 1995 winter siege
Sam Faulkner- Portrait by Kabul street photographer
Afghanistan -Photo Reportage from an endless civil war
Photojournalism
The Taliban movement first emerged on the military scene in August 1994, with the stated goal of liberating Afghanistan from its present corrupt leadership of warlords and establishing a pure Islamic society.
By October 1994, the Taliban movement had attracted the support of Pakistan, which was unhappy with the unsuccessful Hekmatyar, which saw in the Taliban a way to secure trade routes to Central Asia and establish a government in Kabul friendly to its interests.
By the end of November and December, more than 150 people had died in Kabul due to the repeated rocketing, shelling and high-altitude bombing of the city, reportedly by Taliban forces.
Afghanistan was really where it all began for me as a photographer. A few days after my last exam I threw a battered old Canon and a few rolls of Kodak Tri-X into a backpack and took a long route to Afghanistan. It was 1994, the Russians had left and the feuding mujahideen were slaughtering each other while the world ignored.
I didn't really know where I was going. I didn't really know what I was doing. I hadn't worked out how I was going to get into the country, let alone how I was going to get out again. I wanted an adventure and to have a go at being a photographer.
The images from that first trip to Afghanistan won the Sunday Times Ian Parry Award and kickstarted my career.