Taliban 2009

Magnum In Motion... Taliban 2009 by Thomas Dworzak. "...In December 2001, Thomas Dworzak arrived in Kandahar, the former heart of the Taliban. Across from his hotel portrait studios were re-opening, after having been closed by the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar. They had been allowed to work partly when the Taliban realized Photographs would be needed for forms of identification. When members of the Taliban came for the required identification pictures, they also posed for a more flattering portraits. The Taliban members were unable to return for their portraits since they had been forced to flee the advancing opposition. These images were taken clandestinely in the back rooms of the studios. The studio photographers gladly sold these images to Thomas."