Tag: Farzana Wahidy

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 “ via NPR.org: http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2013/04/02/174347434/how-a-female-photographer-sees-her-afghanistan?ft=1&f=97635953…

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…