An Afghan girl blows bubble gum while cooking for her family in Kabul, 2007.
Born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1984, photographer Farzana Wahidy was only a teenager when the Taliban took over the country in 1996. At age 13 she was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa, she recalls, and she describes those years as a “very closed, very dark time.” To carry a camera would have been unthinkable.
And yet, she says, “I felt lucky compared to other women at that time.” Women were banned from continuing their education during Taliban rule. But some, like Farzana, found ways to keep studying. She would carry books under her burqa and attended what she calls an “underground school” with about 300 other students in a residential area of Kabul.
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Safwa, a city in the eastern province in Saudi Arabia, covered by black and grief in the memory of Imam Hussain, Grandson of Prophet Mohammed (PUH). Muharram (1436 H) 2014. Photographed by Ahmed AlEssa.
