Afghanistan, Kabul, 1996
During the war against the Soviet occupation, the capital city was spared. During the bloody Afghan Civil War, however, it became the main battleground. By 1995 one-third of Kabul had been reduced to rubble. What had been the central commercial district resembled a moonscape.
The photograph is part of the Memoria, currently on view at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris until July 29, 2018. Each photograph in this exhibition is a fragment of memory, captured within the continuum of the history I experienced. Each image was intended to reach a mass audience at the time the events were taking place as a way of raising public consciousness; one element among many in the process of change. Now, as that same continuum moves relentlessly forward and the events themselves recede in time, I hope these pictures will stand as a remembrance of the people in them, of the conditions they endured and of how those conditions came to be. As we share these memories, we bear witness together. Let us not forget.
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