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How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan

How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan

At age 13, Farzana Wahidy was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa. To have carried a camera then would have been unthinkable. But she went on to become a pioneering photographer and, after working and studying abroad, returned to Afghanistan to “

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Born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1984, photographer Farzana Wahidy was only a teenager when the Taliban took over the country in 1996. At age 13 she was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa, she recalls, and she describes those years as a “very closed, very dark time.” To carry a camera would have been unthinkable.

April 2, 2013
Nordic Light 2012 Farzana Wahidy

Link: La Lettre de la Photographie

It is impossible not to be fascinated by Farzana Wahidy. If the fact that this is an Afghan war photographer is not enough to impress you, consider that we are also talking about a young woman. She is just 27 years of age and was the first female Afghan journalist to work for an international news agency in Afghanistan.

April 26, 2012
::: The Travel Photographer :::: Farzana Wahidy

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April 26, 2009
A woman’s eye on Afghanistan

Born in Kabul, the 23-year-old is one of the few female photojournalists in Afghanistan. And even six years after she picked up her first camera, Farzana Wahidy says she still hears the grunts of disapproval or feels the sticks that are thrown at her, the sentiment that comes with being a female photojournalist in a male-dominated profession, and in a country where women are not seen as equals.
“Every picture that came out of Afghanistan, they were mostly taken by men and foreign photojournalists.” And most were pictures of bloodshed, she says. “So I thought that could be something for me to do, show a picture of what Afghanistan is. I like pictures that show the difficulty of the lives of women, their daily lives.”

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March 8, 2008