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Jan 2016 back issue
by Stephen Dupont
Generation AK, The Afghanistan Wars 1993 - 2012 is a retrospective selection of
images of the country where Stephen Dupont has covered everything from civil
war and the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, to the launch of "Operation
Enduring Freedom" and the ongoing war on terrorism. Dupont completed much of
his work on self-funded trips and as part of one of the last small independent
photographic agencies, Contact Press Images, of which he has been a member
since 1997. In 2008 Dupont survived a suicide bombing while travelling with an
Afghan opium eradication team near Jalalabad.
Taliban prisoners of war, Yangi Qale, Afghanistan, October 1998.
© Stephen DUPONT (CONTACT PRESS IMAGES)
Northern Alliance at Bagram, 1998.
Anonymous portrait of Afghan man, Kabul, 2006.
Anonymous portrait of Afghan boy, Kabul, 2006.
Ahmed Shah MASSOUD, leader of the Afghan resistance (Northern Alliance) against the Taliban regime. Talequan,
Afghanistan, October 1998. 1998 © Stephen DUPONT (CONTACT PRESS IMAGES)
Brothers Hussein (L) and Reza shoot up heroin near Maiwan Avenue, Kabul, 2006.
Afghan woman begging in restaurant along Maiwain Avenue, Kabul, 2006.
Afghan special forces search for Taliban in the village of Gonbaz, Kandihar Province, 2005.
A wounded Afghan boy who had been shot in crossfire during a battle between US soldiers and Taliban in Gonbaz
village, Kandahar Province, 2005.
Nangahar Province. April 29, 2008.
Gymnasium, Kabul, 1995.
Injured arriving at Jamhuriat Hospital, Kabul, 1993.
Afghan refugee, Shamsatoo Refugee Camp, Peshawar, Pakistan, 2001.
Northern Alliance troops roll through Jabal Saraj on a tank as they prepare an offensive against the Taliban, 2001.
Bamian, Afghanistan, 2005.
Maiwan Avenue, Kabul, 1995.
Orphanage, Kabul, 1995.
Tajik wedding at Saki Refugee camp, Mazar-i-Sharif, 1993.
US marines on patrol in Asadabad, Kunar Province, 2005.
Massoud and friends, Feyzabad, 1998.
