Random pictures from Afghanistan

[badmash_khel]

AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. Female students in a chemistry lab at the University. 55% of the 6000 students were women. 1986.

Copyright: Abbas/Magnum Photos









AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. At a wedding ceremony, the groom is supposed to discover his bride for the first time in the mirror. 1986.














camera shy



Yawan, Badakhshan




Bande Amir, end of winter

[randolph85]

that badakshan pic is awesome, though i wish that horse had a little more to eat because its looking a little thin.

[faye]

i was thinking how thin those 2 men on the bridge, are.

[randolph85]

they're old and well fed by afghan standards, they look like they have another 20-30 years left in them. i wonder what treats they are eating.

[faye]

can you enlarge it for yourself? my guess is cashew nuts.

[Afghanistan2010]

Kabul




Urzgan Province






Kandahar City

[Afghanistan2010]

Paktya Province , Chamkani








Paktya province , near Satte Kandaw






Bamyan Province , Kuchi Family 1971.














´
Takhar province,Taloqan








Outskirt of Kabul







Nuristan,Afghanistan 1968 by National Geographic September 1968 Thomas J Abercrombie








Rabat village in Balkh province, Afghanistan.










Jalalabad,Nangrahar province










Takhar


















Takhar

















Female workers of the mechanical factory of Jangalak, Afghanistan. Photographer: Abbas


















Last year, 70-year-old widow Gul Shah made more than $200 by selling the silk cocoons spun by the silkworms. With the money she made she was able to set up her own business. She buys cotton thread for her loom, which she uses to make tablecloths. The tablecloths are then sold for small profit at the local market.

















The Afghan rose, saddler in the bazaar Tashkourgan occasionally interrupts his work to breathe a rose with infinite delicacy. The old craftsman then seems to escape from this world.