‘You Can’t Just Walk Away’: Why Paula Bronstein Keeps Photographing Afghanistan – The New York Times

‘You Can’t Just Walk Away’: Why Paula Bronstein Keeps Photographing Afghanistan

A new book by Paula Bronstein features a collection of her photographs taken in Afghanistan, showing both the beautiful and the horrific in a visual compendium of what has happened on the ground during America’s longest war.

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Once in Kabul, the photographer Paula Bronstein and I went to visit a mother and her two children as they smoked heroin in the tiny storage room where they lived. Their fingers black with tar, Zaher, 14, and Gulpari, 12, inhaled the drug out of a canoe-shaped piece of foil heated from below, a skill learned from their mother.