From the darkness inside a handmade wooden box camera, images of Afghanistan ripple to life: a family enjoying an outing in a swan boat on a lake; child laborers toiling in brick factories; women erased by all-covering veils; armed young men with fire in their eyes.
The Children
Children outside their home in Bamiyan. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Razia, 8. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Mirwaiss, 11. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Madina, 9. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
A boy in Bamiyan. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Khatira, 7. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Mahdi, 8. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Mohammad, 10, Muzammel, 15, Qodratullah, 12, and Mohammad Rizwan, 13, collecting recycled items in Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
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Landscapes
Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Farmers in Bamiyan. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Road under construction outside Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Outskirts of Kandahar city. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Brick factory near Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Outside the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque in Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Kuchi nomad in Bamiyan province. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Bamiyan province. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Daily Life
Kabir Jan, 27, at Qargha Lake near Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Jama Masjid Mosque, in Herat. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Food distribution, Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Brick factory near Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Traffic officers in Kandahar. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Heroin addicts under a bridge in Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Park in Karte Sakhi neighborhood, Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Mannequin faces are covered in Kabul stores. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Mohammad Hossein, 16, right, and Sakhi, 13, in Bamiyan. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Battle Scars
Destroyed U.S. Humvees sold as scrap metal in Kandahar city. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Shell damage in Wardak province. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
U.S. Embassy in Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Former U.S. military base, Arghandab valley, Kandahar province. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Outskirts of Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
The ruins of a military base in Wardak province. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
A Taliban Humvee, outskirts of Kabul. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Portraits
Religious student Fazlul Haq Mohammadi, 22. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Field worker Shahram, 18. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Bismellah Hassani, 82. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Wedding hall manager Mohammad Shafiq Azizi, 29. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Traffic officer Muhammad Yaseen Niazi, 27. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Businessman Abdul Khaleq Khodadadi, 39. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Street vendor Mustafa, 15. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Religious students, Jama Masjid Mosque in Herat. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
Street photographer Lutfullah Habibzadeh , 72. Image by Rodrigo Abd. Afghanistan.
