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AFGHANISTAN


2003

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AFGHANISTAN
2003

Jalalabad

“If there was one region that I was apprehensive about, it was Jalalabad, at the heart of the land of the Pashtun, the cradle of the Talibans…"

Abstracts

"Hadji Daoud, an authority in the region, who I met in Kabul, offered to take me on a tour of his fief. He was returning to his land to bring back news from the capital to the traditional chiefs who had chosen him to represent them at the Loya Jirga, the assembly that had just voted in the country’s new constitution. (…) I don’t know if the hadj made a single mention of the event that marked the procedures at this Loya Jirga.

Malalaï Joya, a delegate from a region close to Herat, had caused a stir at the platform. Before her microphone was cut, she made an appeal to the assembly: 'Why do we give the floor to the men who ruined our country and led it to civil war?' The old moudjahidin rose up against her, and today, Malalaï lives with death threats, and is protected by international security forces.

(…) On the day when Hadji Daoud met up with his peers and vassals, I didn’t see a single woman. My protector had forgotten the reason for my presence. Or else were his men unwilling for me to sketch their women? But the next day, I managed to make a portrait of a Pashtun from the area. Khaperey agreed to pose for a photo but only dressed in a chadri, and from behind."

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

AFGHANISTAN 2273
Chokriya, 2003

Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Felt pen on paper
41 x 32 cm

AFGHANISTAN 2275
Chokriya 2, 2003

Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Felt pen on paper
41 x 32 cm

AFGHANISTAN 3487
Jour tranquille à Jalalabad, 2003

Afghanistan
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 40 cm

AFGHANISTAN 3454
Tora Bora, 2003

Afghanistan
Gouache on paper
37 x 46 cm

AFGHANISTAN 3178
Khaperey, 2003

Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Middle format Contax 645
30 x 40 cm

AFGHANISTAN 3172
Nomades pachtounes, 2003

Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Silver print
30 x 40 cm

AFGHANISTAN 3489
Golgontcha, 2003

Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Gouache on paper
42 x 66 cm

AFGHANISTAN 3174
Tente nomade, 2003

Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Gouache on paper
37 x 46 cm

Maps

AFGHANISTAN 2268
Map of Afghanistan, 2003

Gouache on paper
64 x 50 cm

AFGHANISTAN 2269
Map of Afghanistan 2, 2003

Gouache on paper
64 x 50 cm

Making-of

Illustration Making Of
Chokriya's place in Jalalabad

© Claire Duguet

Illustration Making Of
Khaperey's place in Jalalabad

© Claire Duguet

Illustration Making Of
Nomad pachtoune camp

© Claire Duguet

Books

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