Afghan Box Camera
Afghan Box Camera

Author: Lukas Birk

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907893360

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Known as the kamra-e-faoree ('instant camera'), Afghanistan is one of the last places on Earth where it has continued to be used by photographers as a way of making a living. Under the Taliban, with the banning of photography, it was even outlawed, forcing photographers to hide or destroy their tools. Spanning decades, from peacetime to war, box camera photography in Afghanistan exists within a more sophisticated photographic history. With the help of dozens of Afghan photographers, this book illustrates the technique and artistry of a visually enthralling photographic culture.

Polaroids from the Middle Kingdom
Polaroids from the Middle Kingdom

Author: Lukas Birk

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780988174566

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"These Polaroids from the Middle Kingdom are a series of images from contemporary China from 2008-2010 but captured on expired film from the 1980s"--p. 7.

Under An Afghan Sky
Under An Afghan Sky

Author: Mellissa Fung

Publisher: HarperCollins Canada

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1443408263

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In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC’s The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul. Suddenly, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Under an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung’s days in captivity, and a powerful book about survival and the indomitable spirit of one woman in the most perilous of circumstances.

Kafkanistan
Kafkanistan

Author: Lukas Birk

Publisher: Glitterati

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780985169626

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This resulting journal, Kafkanistan, explores how we are all influenced by the media. Believing that many of us will never visit the region and all we know about it is what we read in the newspapers and what we see on television, the authors were interes

Shooting Kabul
Shooting Kabul

Author: N. H. Senzai

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1442401958

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Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family emigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.

Afghanistan
Afghanistan

Author:

Publisher: Prestel Publishing

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791348650

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Noted documentary photographer Robert Nickelsberg's photographs help bring into focus the day-to-day consequences of war, poverty, oppression, and political turmoil in Afghanistan. Since the attack on the World Trade Center, Afghanistan has evolved from a country few people thought twice about to a place that evokes our deepest emotions. TIME magazine photographer Robert Nickelsberg has been publishing his images of this distant yet all too familiar country since 1998, when he accompanied a group of Mujahideen across the border from Pakistan. This remarkable volume of photographs is accompanied by insightful texts from experts on Afghanistan and the Taliban. The images themselves are captioned with places, dates, and Nickelsberg's own extensive commentary. Timely and important, the book serves as a reminder that Afghanistan and the rest of the world remain inextricably linked, no matter how much we long to distance ourselves from its painful realities.

Portraits
Portraits

Author: Steve McCurry

Publisher: Phaidon

Published: 1999-06-17

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13:

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A collection of unposed and engaging portraits from around the world.

Watches Without Time
Watches Without Time

Author: Matt Zeller

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781935982203

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For eight months in 2008, U.S. Army Capt. Matt Zeller served as an embedded combat adviser with Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Watches Without Time is a compilation of the emails he sent home to family and friends during that period--so that, as he writes in the Preface, "should anything have ever happened to me, they would know what I went through."Watches Without Time gives a granular account of the challenges Zeller and his men encountered in Ghazni, and of the complex missions they undertook there. Written in clear and searingly intimate prose, it highlights the many emotion-laden experiences he underwent both during his tour and after his return to the United States.