Magnum Photos

Exhibition - Bitter Fruit: Pictures from Afghanistan 

Magnum Photographers 

Magnum Print Room, London
5 June - 28 August 2009

A cross roads between East and West, mountainous and landlocked, Afghanistan's history is one of regular invasion and a long struggle for self definition. In the late 19th century, Afghanistan became a buffer state in "The Great Game" played between the Russian and British Indian Empires and has remained a pawn in international politics ever since. Since the late 1970s the country has suffered continuous and brutal civil war in addition to foreign interventions by Russia and America.
Post 9/11 and the start of America's war on the Taliban, Afghanistan... 

Abbas 1986

AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. A Muslim woman in traditional clothes and... 

Abbas 1992

AFGHANISTAN. Near Kabul. A Mujahid of the Hezbi-Islami (Islamic... 

Abbas 1992

AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. 1992. A wedding by proxy: the woman's fiancé,... 

Abbas 2001

AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. A woman in burqah, the full islamic veil,... 

Alex Majoli 2001

AFGHANISTAN. Dasht-e-Qala, Northeast region. Northern Alliance... 

Alex Majoli 2001

AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. Members of the feminist group founded by... 

Eve Arnold 1969

AFGHANISTAN. A bride awaits her husband whom she has never seen... 

Eve Arnold 1969

AFGHANISTAN. Mazar i Sharif. 1969. 

Collection T. Dworzak 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kandahar. 2002. Taliban portrait.

Collection T. Dworzak 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kandahar. 2002. Taliban portrait. 

Collection T. Dworzak 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kandahar. 2002. Taliban portrait.

Collection T. Dworzak 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kandahar. 2002. Taliban portrait. 

Collection T. Dworzak 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kandahar. 2002. Taliban portrait. 

Collection T. Dworzak 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kandahar. 2002. Taliban portrait. 

Collection T. Dworzak 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kandahar. 2002. Taliban portrait. 

Collection T. Dworzak 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kandahar. 2002. Taliban portrait. 

Elliott Erwitt 1977

AFGHANISTAN. Herat. 1977.

Carl De Keyzer 2004

AFGHANISTAN. 2003. 

Steve McCurry 1992

AFGHANISTAN. Badakhshan. 1992. Children work in an opium field... 

Steve McCurry 1994

00958_19, 10120, AFGHN-10120.

CAPTION: Blue Mosque. Mazar-i-Sharif,... 

Steve McCurry 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. 2002. Orange Seller. 

Steve McCurry 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. 2002. A young girl on the street of Kabul.

AFGHN-10135... 

Steve McCurry 2002

AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. 2002. Life resumes amid ruin and rubble in... 

Paolo Pellegrin 2006

AFGHANISTAN. Nangahar province. May 2006. A helicopter used by... 

Paolo Pellegrin 2006

AFGHANISTAN. June 2006. Badakshan province. A farmer collects... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1994

Afghanistan. Kabul. Woman whose home has been destroyed. 1996.... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1994

AFGHANISTAN. Sunset outside Jalalabad. 1994. 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1994

AFGHANISTAN. Kabul. Trying out artificial limbs at ICRC clinic... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1996

AFGHANISTAN. Taliban fighters take refuge behind armour as they... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1998

Afghanistan. Gambling on which egg is the hardest - Taloquan.... 

Larry Towell 2008

AFGHANISTAN. Mazar-e-Sharif. 2008. Market. 

Larry Towell 2008

AFGHANISTAN. 2008. Shomoli Plain. Ruins. Village region north... 
Display 
Items per page