Tag: Moises Saman

  • On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall – Lens

    On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall – Lens

    On Assignment: Afghanistan in Free Fall

    Moises Saman has returned to Afghanistan time and again with the hope of documenting the promise of peace and prosperity, which now seem ever more elusive.

    via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/assignment-17/

    KABUL — I was one of the hundreds of young photojournalists who came to this distant country in 2001 to photograph my first war; naïve, a little reckless, and mostly unprepared. At the time, the Taliban ruled most of the country. Only a thin slice of mountainous territory in the north, between Tajikistan and the Panjshir Valley, was controlled by the opposition, the Northern Alliance. My travel companions were Matthew McAllester, who was then a foreign correspondent for Newsday, and Tyler Hicks, a photographer for The New York Times.

  • Dateline: Iraq – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com

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    Dateline: Iraq – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:

    Moises Saman does not need a timetable to know that things have changed in Iraq — however tenuously — since his last rotation there a year ago as a photographer for The New York Times. “You hear music on the street sometimes,” he said Monday in a telephone interview from Baghdad. He’s also noticed that people linger outdoors at night. (Indeed, the music from the park opposite The Times’s bureau was so loud last night that it was hard to hear Mr. Saman sometimes.) “I think there’s more life on the street,” he said. “Without painting too rosy a picture, there’s a definite sense that life is moving.”