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Postcards from Afghanistan after forty years of war
Bruno Zanzottera
Series description
Central Asia was once traversed by numerous peoples, traders and armies. Afghanistan was at the heart of this world, as it welcomed those who travelled across Asia, yet arguably none of the invaders ever completely left. These images document a journey through Afghanistan after 40 years of war and four years of drought.
Biography
Bruno Zanzottera is a photographer, videoreporter, journalist for over 30 years, focused on social, cultural, ethnographic and geographic issues. In his career he published countless photographic reportage on magazines around the world. Among these: National Geographic Magazine, GEO France, GEO International, Airone, Le Figaro Magazine, VSD, Internazionale, D-La Repubblica, Sette, Corriere della Sera, Meridiani, Panorama, Focus, Rolling Stone, ELLE, Spiegel, Brigitte, Days Japan, Pèlerin, Sunday Times. He is a founder member of Parallelozero Agency
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A flock of sheep belonging to a family of Kuchi herders travelling to the Shiwa pastures in the northern province of Badakhshan. Families used to stay in the highlands until the end of September, but now they start to depart at the end of July and beginning of August due to the exhaustion of the pastures.
© Bruno Zanzottera, Italy, 2nd Place, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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A tank left over from the Soviet invasion, abandoned in a field on the outskirts of Bamyan and painted in a fanciful manner.
© Bruno Zanzottera, Italy, 2nd Place, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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Sayed Khan, a young Kuchi-Baluch herder, takes his family’s flock of sheep to Feyzabad, the capital of Badakhshan province. Some will be loaded onto a truck while others will continue the migration through the mountains to reach the province of Kunduz. In recent years, because of war and drought, his family has been forced to sell almost all of its camels.
© Bruno Zanzottera, Italy, 2nd Place, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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A Kuchi cemetery in the mountains of the Shiwa pastures in the province of Badakhshan.
© Bruno Zanzottera, Italy, 2nd Place, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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A warning to careless drivers along the road between the northern province of Kunduz and Kabul.
© Bruno Zanzottera, Italy, 2nd Place, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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Young Hazara girls, an ethnic group of Turkish-Mongolian origin and Shia religion, visit the caves of Bamyan where the famous statues of the Buddhas once stood.
© Bruno Zanzottera, Italy, 2nd Place, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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Overview of the Kokcha River and the mountains of the Badakhshan region.
© Bruno Zanzottera, Italy, 2nd Place, Professional competition, Landscape, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards