Video: Skaterstan - Afghanistan on skateboards
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Life in Afghanistan is not at all limited to explosions, shootings and cities constantly changing hands. These are all particulars. And, basically, a calm, measured life flows there. Just about this photo project of Noah Abrams called Skateistan.
How do we know anything about life in the same Afghanistan? From the media. And the media report only about terrorist attacks, regular outbreaks of violence, murders and other rating events.
But the media very rarely talk about the ordinary life that the overwhelming majority of the Afghan population lives. About a life in which there is a place for big and small joys. For example, riding a skateboard.
Noah Abrams' photo project is dedicated to the latter. It depicts ordinary people of Afghanistan in their daily lives. And in each of the photographs, as an invariable attribute of life, there is a skate.
It turns out that so little is needed for a person to be happy.
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