More street from Afghanistan

[Andrea Taurisano]

Hi again folk.

I just posted some street shots from Afghanistan, maybe for specially interested ones, but anyway..

http://ilcimento.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/streets-and-roads-of-afghanistan/

There you also find links to the two color sections from the Hindu Kush, Afghanistan too.

Please see the galleries as a large light table with negatives or slides on, you pick the one that most capture your eye. I know that some of you like series with max 10 photos, but that doesn't do for me

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

ohhh...super super photos! thanks!

 

[Rom]

Wonderful series. Many thanks for sharing. Can you tell us a little bit more about it ?

Thanks & keep the good work !

 

[kosta_g]

excellent documenting of the streets of Afghanistan.

I'm fascinated to find out a little bit more of how you found your time there.

cheers

 

[Andrea Taurisano]

Thanks a lot guys. I was in Afghanistan for 2 weeks (came back yesterday) as a geologist, to assess the landslide and avalanche risk at a number of communities in the Hindu Kush mountains (Badakhshan province). That gave me the opportunity to really meet a lot of locals, real Afghans from the mountains.. I just wish I had had more time to take photographs... next year maybe.

The province I was in has never really been in control of the Talibans, but there are bandits, narco lords and poor farmers who borrowed and invested money on poppies and therefore don't welcome foreigners into their valleys, fearing they would be eradicating their only sustainance (which many western organisations do).

However, we never had a problem, thanks to the experience of the people I was with (we avoided critical poppy areas) and especially thanks to a basic fact: by far the vast majority of Afghans are extremely lovely, sociable and generous people. Among the world's poorest, yet still eager to share the little food they have with a perfect stranger walking through their villages. While taking those close up portraits that you find in the color sections, I couldn't help thinking "this is what the collateral damages of our well meant air strikes look like"... sad.

 

[RFH]

Good stuff. I like your postprocessing. It's easy on the eye and still very expressive. The bakery shot with guys looking out the window is fantastic.

 

[BobYIL]

Outstanding Andrea! Great documentation with right processing to fit the subjects and surroundings. The Hindi Kush pictures too are amazing, telling a lot about the local people there, probably your words would fall short to describe. Thank you for sharing them..

 

[craygc]

Really enjoyed those Andrea ...thanx for sharing

 

[Belle]

Thanks for sharing.

 

[Sylvester]

Thank you! I prefer your black and white work, it has an atmosphere that gives me chills. Must be the desert.