Nina Berman

Documentary photographer

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Afghanistan - under Taliban

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Kabul, 1998.Â A woman holds an ...ted school for girls and women.

Kabul, 1998.Â A woman holds an earlier diploma.Â She had wanted to continue her education but the Taliban take over of Afghanistan in 1996 eliminated school for girls and women.

Kabul, 1998. A young girl at a widows' bakery.

Kabul, 1998.Â Widows bakery.Â 5...un by the World Food Program.Â

Kabul, 1998.Â Widows bakery.Â 50,000 widows lived in Kabul with no employment permitted except for a few of these bakeries run by the World Food Program.Â

Kabul, 1998.Â A Kabul neighborh...then between Afghan factions.Â

Kabul, 1998.Â A Kabul neighborhood left in ruin following decades of war supported first by the USA and Soviet factions, and then between Afghan factions.Â

Kabul, 1998.Â Â A young woman outside a widows bakery.

Kabul, 1998.Â A woman enters a ...ttend a class about childbirth.

Kabul, 1998.Â A woman enters a compound to attend a class about childbirth.

Kabul, 1998.Â Â Women at a childbirth class.Â

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Kabul, 1998.Â A woman and her c...bors reporting on each other.Â

Kabul, 1998.Â A woman and her child peer out a window.Â She was nervous to be seen speaking of neighbors reporting on each other.Â

Kabul, 1998.Â Â A woman at home...n 1996,Â music was forbidden.Â

Kabul, 1998.Â Â A woman at home with a forbidden cassette player.Â When the Taliban seized power in 1996,Â music was forbidden.Â

Kabul, 1998. A widows bakery.

Logar Province, 1998. A local Taliban leader at his home. Despite Taliban restriction regarding photography and dress, this man welcome myself and Newsweek reporter Carla Power and graciously allowed himself to be photographed.

Kandahar, 2000  &n... photography was not permitted.

Kandahar, 2000 Street scene and loudspeaker for the call to prayer. At that time, few foreigners walked the streets of Kandahar and photography was not permitted.

Kabul, 1998.  A view t...alking on the street.

Kabul, 1998. A view through a burka, looking out a window partially covered. The street scene shows an amputee, most likely wounded from war, walking on the street.

Kandahar, 2000  &n...of the main mosque in Kandahar.

Kandahar, 2000 Residents and Taliban stand in front of the main mosque in Kandahar.

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Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998. A young girl at a widows' bakery.

Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998.Â Widows bakery.Â 50_run by the World Food Program.Â

Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998.Â A Kabul neighborho_ then between Afghan factions.Â

Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998.Â Â A young woman outside a widows bakery.

Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998.Â A woman enters a c_attend a class about childbirth.

Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998.Â Â Women at a childbirth class.Â

Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998.Â A woman and her ch_hbors reporting on each other.Â

Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998.Â Â A woman at home _in 1996,Â music was forbidden.Â

Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998.  A widows bakery.

Thumbnail of Logar Province, 1998.  _hotographed.

Thumbnail of Kandahar, 2000  &nb_d photography was not permitted.

Thumbnail of Kabul, 1998.  A view th_walking on the street.

Thumbnail of Kandahar, 2000  &nb_ of the main mosque in Kandahar.

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Afghanistan - under Taliban

Copyright Nina Berman 2024

Updated Aug 2021

Topics Islam, Photography, Spotlight, War

Photographs from Afghanistan 1998 in Kabul and 2000 in Kandahar showing life under Taliban rule commissioned by Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine.

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