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Occupation
Photographer
Taliban
US Government
War Photography
Product details
- ISBN 9781805980025
- Dimensions: 245 x 307mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2025
- Publisher: GOST Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The images depict a country in upheaval, as experienced by a foreign photographer who has spent over a decade navigating its complexities.
‘Afghanistan resists foreign understanding, and its image has been repeatedly appropriated and reshaped by the empires that have occupied it over the centuries. Misunderstandings arise not only from the difficulty of accessing the country’s many layers of meaning but also from a tendency on our part, as journalists, to simplify and misrepresent. These simplifications help build narratives that justify foreign wars and occupations, often carried out in the name of spreading democratic values and defending women’s rights.’
‘Afghanistan resists foreign understanding, and its image has been repeatedly appropriated and reshaped by the empires that have occupied it over the centuries. Misunderstandings arise not only from the difficulty of accessing the country’s many layers of meaning but also from a tendency on our part, as journalists, to simplify and misrepresent. These simplifications help build narratives that justify foreign wars and occupations, often carried out in the name of spreading democratic values and defending women’s rights.’
Lorenzo Tugnoli is an Italian photographer based in Barcelona, who covers the Middle East and Central Asia. He lived in Afghanistan for six years from 2009 to 2015 and has since travelled back regularly to continue his coverage of the country. He is a contract photographerfor The Washington Post and his work has appeared on The New Yorker, Time Magazine, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He is the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography. His work was awarded three times by the World Press Photo as well as the first prize at the Bayeux Calvados photo trophy.
