In Afghanistan, ‘Unbelievable Force of Life’

Zalmai Ahad has been photographing Afghanistan, where he was born, for almost 10 years. Few photographers, he said, want to tell the story he tells — the story of daily life.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/in-afghanistan-unbelieveable-force-of-life/

Nobody wanted to tell this story. Images from Afghanistan are always related to military action. But if you want to understand what went wrong in Afghanistan, you have to be a little more focused on the Afghan people. I wanted to show that life goes on every day — that people have hope and dreams like everywhere else.