Daily Life in Kabul Photographed by Marieke van der Velden

Without having experienced a place, it’s near impossible to not let your impressions be shaped by the media. When it comes to a place like Kabul, Afghanistan, the collective view of anyone who hasn’t spent real time experiencing will obviously skew toward visions of a war-torn, impossible-to-inhabit city. It was this desire to add a different view of a place that motivated Amsterdam-based photographer Marieke van der Velden to portray the city in her series A Monday in Kabul.