Contrasting Childhoods Joyful Play vs Hardship
Sayed Habib Bidell
Photographer
A girl who has spent the entire day plastering cow dung onto walls now stands beside her younger sister by the wall after finishing her work.
Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Kunar Province, Afghanistan
Children are playing on a very old carousel.
Kabul, Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan
Abdulaziz, a 13-year-old recently expelled from Pakistan, searches for plastic along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He plans to take the collected plastic back to his family’s tent to start a fire, hoping to keep them safe from the night’s cold.
Torkham Border Area – Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Torkham Border Area – Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Hussain Ali, an 8-year-old child, goes out with his donkey in heavy rain to search for drinking water.
Bamyan, Afghanistan
Bamyan, Afghanistan
A child bathes his buffaloes in the river on a warm summer morning.
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Due to economic hardships, many children are forced to work alongside their parents in brick kilns. This photo captures a group of these children who are compelled to work in such areas.
Kabul, Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan
Due to economic hardships, many children are forced to work alongside their parents in brick kilns. This photo captures a group of these children who are compelled to work in such areas.
Kabul, Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan
A portrait of a working child who is stacking more than 500 bricks in a clay kiln
The gaze of a 5-year-old girl peering from the window of her father’s truck, recently deported from Pakistan to Afghanistan.
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Several children are swimming in the Harirud River in Herat Province on a warm summer day.
A child who works in a yarn shop
Baharak district-Badakhshan-Afghanistan
Baharak district-Badakhshan-Afghanistan
A child performing tricks at the Herat Circus.
My daughter is painting by the light of a lantern on a night without electricity.
Kabul, Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan
The burned face of a child following a suicide attack in Badghis Province.
A balloon seller child during the festive nights of Eid.
Herat, Afghanistan
Herat, Afghanistan
The burned torso of an 8-year-old child who survived a suicide attack on the Herat-Kandahar highway.
