"I did everything I could to show some beauty in a corner of Afganistan"
September 6, 2021 11:50 AM Subscribe
"Leaving my photo project behind was one of the hardest parts of fleeing. It was everything I worked on for over three years. And what will happen to those pictures? What will happen to the women in the pictures?"Photographer Fatimah Hossaini spent three years trying to upend Western narratives about women in her country. She didn't get to finish her work: The Unseen Women of Afghanistan.
Related: The Other Afghan Women: In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them. (New Yorker)
posted by Ahmad Khani at 2:32 PM on September 6, 2021 [4 favorites]
posted by Ahmad Khani at 2:32 PM on September 6, 2021 [4 favorites]
Was following Hossaini on Twitter while this was unfolding. Her photo essay on leaving Afghanistan is quite poignant.
posted by the cydonian at 1:10 AM on September 8, 2021
posted by the cydonian at 1:10 AM on September 8, 2021
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