When Hazara photographer Muzafar Ali fled, he smuggled a hard drive of 13,000 photos out with him in a sleeping bag. They show an Afghanistan that disappeared when the Taliban took power
uzafar Ali, who lives in Adelaide, grew up as a refugee in Pakistan after his family fled
“This man was using a box camera to be photographed, which Afghan people still relied on then. I shot this picture in 2006 when this village was secure and peaceful but later this village fell to the Taliban and it was impossible to visit.” Ali got a job with the United Nations as a political analyst, which gave him unique access to some of the most remote parts of the country. He bought a camera. He wanted to capture the beauty of his country and share it with its people.
Sangtakht district, Daikundi province. Before the Taliban took over, women could move without male supervision. “I met Yusuf and his family in Nili, the capital town of Daikundi province. I saw them washing their faces and I shook his hand – he was walking from Charsad Khana valley, in Miramor district.
A traditional restaurant in Khedir district in Daikundi province. The posters on the wall are from Afghanistan’s first democratic election in 2005.Three Hazara girls in Kissaw valley.
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