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Photography Exhibit Afghan Daily Life by Steve Connors

August 31 - September 26, 2010

A window into the daily lives of ordinary Afghans

The intention behind this ensemble of photographs from Afghanistan is to afford a window into the daily lives of ordinary Afghans in the period following the toppling of the Taliban government and during which the international community assumed responsibility for the country¹s future.

Although I attempted to exclude images of war, peripheral references inevitably crept in. Afghanistan has been in a constant state of war since the late 1970¹s and the consequences of both the long-term legacy and the ongoing conflict are still very much a part of daily life for the people of Afghanistan.

The images in this series were shot between November 2001 and the early Fall of 2002. During that time I was based in Kabul but travelled around Afghanistan – North, South and East – with a translator, a driver and occasionally with a guide. I attempted to record what I felt the people I met would want us to know about them and about their lives.

As I edited the photographs all these years later I believed I should reasonably be able to expect that the lives of the people I met would have been improved beyond recognition. Unfortunately as I read the newspaper reports and look at the photographs that accompany them, I see that is not so.

–Steve Connors, Washington, D.C., August 2010.

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