Video: War and Peace: An echo of the long-term war in Afghanistan in the "Faces of Hope" photo project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Afghanistan - a country with a tragic history. On the land where Zarathustra once lived, shells exploded for many decades in a row, shelling was heard, blood was shed … Devastation and poverty, pain and hardship reign in this state, but local residents find the strength to live on. Photographer Martin Middlebrook for Faces of Hope managed to capture rare smiles of people who do not lose faith in a better future.
Martin Middlebrook's photo project received a wide response from the public: in 2010 he was presented at an international conference in Kabul, and the next year at the British Museum in London. The author of the project notes that 32 years of continuous military conflicts devastated the country, but people have not forgotten how to believe in goodness. The photographer has tried to bring the happy faces of people to the fore, as 32 million civilians are trying to survive in a land of dust and blood.
The author pins hopes for a bright future in Afghanistan with the younger generation. Children who receive education are the key to successful state development. Martin is especially pleased that the girls are sitting at school desks, since their mothers did not have such a chance.
In most of the photos of this project, you can see children dancing in the streets, sitting in class, swimming in a pool in the center of Kabul (it was built by Soviet troops for the execution of the Taliban, today it has been restored by the authorities to erase terrible memories from the memory of the city's residents). Children look poor, most families live in bombed-out houses, but their eyes shine and hope lives in their hearts. Martin recalls that one third of the Afghan population lives below the poverty line, one in six children dies before the age of 5, and the average life expectancy is 44. More photos can be found on the photographer's personal website.
The theme of war and peace in art is truly inexhaustible. On our website Kulturologiya.ru we have already written about the war in lilac tones in the photographs of Richard Moss, about the portraits of child soldiers in Joe Black's adult war, as well as about the toy truth of war, which can be found in the works of Mark Hogankamp.
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