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10/15/20 7:44 PM

#355806 RE: BOREALIS #355802

In pictures: Remembering photographer Shah Marai

Y/W. It wouldn't feel comfortable spending much time on photographing wasps,
little fish, or so many other natural beauties in war-torn countries as Afghanistan.


Published 30 April 2018

Shah Marai, the chief photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Kabul, has been killed in a bombing
in the Afghan capital. Here we present a small selection of his work documenting his homeland.

[...]


An Afghan man digs a grave for one of the victims of a suicide attack this year that killed nearly 60 people
including children Shah Marai / AFP

[...]


After years of being cloistered in their homes during Taliban rule, in 2008 Afghan women were pictured by
Marai as they attended a gym in Herat Shah Marai / AFP


In the early 2000s, Afghanistan's roads and valleys were littered with the debris of war, mostly Soviet vehicles
destroyed by Mujaheedin fighters during the 1979-1989 period of occupation. Here Marai photographed children
playing on an abandoned Soviet tank in the Panjshir valley Shah Maria / AFP

[...]


image captionThis girl was one of more than 6,000 refugees returning to Afghanistan from Iran in 2008
Shah Marai / AFP

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-43948130