For thirty years, Afghanistan had known only war. This work was shot between 2008 and 2011, offering a tour de force examination of survival, exile, loss, and recuperation. Here is the war seen from a variety of perspectives, from military camps to domestic interiors, depicting U.S. and British soldiers, landmine victims, ordinary Afghan citizens, cityscapes, recreation, addiction, weaponry, and a rare series of Taliban portraits.
“Towell, a Canadian, is one of the revered old masters at the photo agency Magnum. Afghanistan is itself an extraordinary object, a limited-edition
coffee-table book- massive to the point of ungainliness. Yet the most powerful and long-lingering images in Towell’s tour of hell are those in which the war is entirely invisible.”
Philip Gourevitch
The New Yorker
Published by Aperture Collector’s Edition
192 pages
