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contributed pictures taken in afghanistan, july 2001:
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taliban border guard at the khyber pass border crossing. he insisted i took a photo of him with an ak-47.
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i took this picture in
kabul, july 2001. the photographer had just taken my photo with his box camera, cape and all. he first took a negative photo, directly on photo paper, developed in the camera box. taking a photo of the negative photo produced a positive photo, also developed inside the box camera.was contributed to the kabul page, but removed many moons ago...
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fifteenth century mosque in
balkh.
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taliban in a jeep,
herat july 2001.taken secretly from my hotel window, between the curtains. generally i didn't see a lot of (heavily) armed taliban, so i couldn't resist taking a photo when a jeep with taliban and rocket launchers stopped right in front of my hotel.
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citadel in
herat, july 2001. built in the fourteenth (?) century and still in use today. as it seemed to be a taliban base i thought it would be wise to hide in a bombed building while taking the photo. replaced on the herat page by another photo (which has also been removed).
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the remains of the fifteenth century musallah complex in
herat, taken in july 2001. largly destroyed by the british in 1885 "for a better line of fire" against the russians (who never came).
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taken in
ghazni, july 2001. one of two minarets, built several hundred meters appart, they are the only remains of a twelfth centry mosque.
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