The Wilson Quarterly

Summer 2014

Viewfinder: Afghanistan

– Zack Stanton

An assortment of the best photos of life in Afghanistan in all its many facets.

A young girl poses for a photo in Farah City, Feb. 25, 2013.

Sadia, an 8-year-old Afghan girl, watches as Farah province Gov. Rahool Amin and other dignitaries arrive at the International Women's Day Celebration at the governor's compound, March 8, 2010.

Residents of Kabul live amongst the destruction caused by war, Feb. 6, 2002.

A group of Afghan women smoking opium, September 2005.

Women sort pistachios by hand at a privately-owned factory in Herat, Afghanistan.

Colonel Jamila Bayaz, Afghanistan's first female police chief, answers the phone in her office in Kabul.

Students at a midwifery school in Nili, Afghanistan.

An Afghan boy at Gudham Shahar Camp in Mazar-i-Sharif, Dec. 1, 2001.

In a small cave, a woman smokes heroin with her husband and son. Islam Qala, Afghanistan, June 13, 2012.

A mother and child, pictured at Indira Gandhi Hospital in Kabul, April 7, 2009.

A group of Kuchi nomads walk through their camp in Bagram, Afghanistan, Sept. 12, 2009.

Children in a boys and girls school in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 23, 2011.

Two residents of Masklaskh, the largest refugee camp in Afghanistan, Feb. 1, 2002.

Men smoke heroin and “shisha” (a heroin-meth combination) inside a cave in the historic Citadel, the series of fortresses built by Alexander the Great, in Farah, Afghanistan.

Village members listen to an Afghan national army soldier ask them questions about enemy activity near Midoni, Khowst province, July 23, 2009.

Mother and child in an early-education class in the Kapisa Province, May 20, 2006.

Kubra, a seamstress, holds a dress she's working on.

Women covered by a single chador sort through pistachios by hand at a factory in Herat, June 7, 2012.

A Kabul street scene, Jan. 1, 1988.

At the Kabul Mili Boot Factory, a worker cuts off excess rubber from the sole of a boot. The factory makes combat boots for Afghan security forces.

Afghan children await to be seen during a cooperative medical engagement by U.S. forces in Hutal's Maiwand District, Dec. 12, 2009.

On a snowdy day in Kabul, a poor man begs passersby for money, Feb. 6, 2008.

An Afghan national army soldier chats with local teenagers in Shinkay District, Zabul province, April 22, 2010.

A young Afghan girl eats a piece of candy given to her by coalition forces in the Maiwand district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province, Oct. 21, 2011.

Hokomat Khan Golestan poses for a photo in front of a photo of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the fallen Northern Alliance leader, Nov. 26, 2010. Golestan was one of Massoud's generals during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and resistance against the Taliban.

Afghan children wait to receive school supplies, Nov. 23, 2009.

An Afghan national army Air Corps MI-17 is loaded with election ballots for delivery ahead of the 2009 elections.

Afghan men listen as village elders speak during a shura [town meeting] in Saraw, July 28, 2011. Shuras are held every week to discuss local issues and deepen the ties between locals and the government.

Two Afghan citizens pray at Forward Operating Base Fenty in the Nangarhar province, March 19, 2012.

An Afghan woman shows off her handmade crafts at a bazaar in Kabul that allows women vendors only, Jan. 28, 2011.

Woman and children from the village of Dudarek wait for a humanitarian aid drop, Nov. 2, 2009.

At a celebration of International Women’s Day, an Afghan girl blows bubbles, March 8, 2011.

Two Afghan women’s basketball teams sponsored by the Afghan Olympic Committee and Kabul City Mayor played an exhibition game as part of an International Youth Day celebration, Aug. 10, 2011.

Afghan children share school supplies they received from International Security Assistance Force members at the Kabul Female Prison and Detention Center in Kabul.

An Afghan woman arrives at a local government meeting to discuss financial issues in Farah City, Farah province, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2012.

Young Afghan girls and her mother pause for a photo while participating in a Women's Bazaar held on Camp Phoenix in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 3, 2013.

Up next in this issue

Michael Rhoads’ Long Road Home

– Jess Ruliffson

An injured Marine stuck inside Walter Reed yearns for the action of Afghanistan.