‘No More Hope’: The Work of a Photojournalist Killed in Kabul – The New York Times

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Photojournalist Killed in Kabul Left a Legacy of Images

Shah Marai was Agence France-Presse’s chief photographer in Kabul. He supported five blind relatives as he focused his camera on the human suffering around him.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/asia/shah-marai-afghan-photographer-killed.html

KABUL, Afghanistan — Through the dark days of the 1990s civil war and the Taliban’s oppressive rule, the Afghan photographer Shah Marai never left his country. As the bloodshed continued after the 2001 American-led invasion, he repeatedly expressed a feeling shared by so many Afghans caught in the devastating cycle: “There is no more hope.”