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7/28/2019 Veiled Rebellion by Lynsey Addario
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Lynsey Lynsey Addario made her rst trip to Afghanistan in May of 2000 to document the lives of
women under the Taliban regime. She returned to Afghanistan two more times before the fall of the
Taliban in November 2001. In those days, women were virtually invisible, and the streets were silent:
music and entertainment was banned, electricity was scarce, and contact with the outside world
was almost non-existent. The only women on the streets were beggars usually widows or wives
of disabled men, begging for money to support their families. Most educated women in the cities
spent their days squirreled away behind closed doors in family compounds, caring for their children,
while rural women continued to work in the elds. On many Fridays, the Taliban performed public
executions at the sports stadium the same stadium in which today, both young men and women
train in boxing, karate and soccer, and which now also hosts political and social gatherings for men
and women alike.
Over the last eleven years, Addario has returned to Afghanistan almost every year to photograph
the development of life across the country, the ongoing war between NATO troops and Taliban
sympathisers and how the war has affected life for civilians and foreign troops. Addario has
documented the toll of the war on both sides, spending months on numerous occasions, embedded
with American troops from the Korengal Valley in the East, to Helmand province in the South, whilemaking frequent trips to the country to spend time with civilians. Throughout, she has trained a close
eye through her lens on womens lives in all arenas of Afghan society: culture, politics, education,
employment, and domestic life.
Cultural taboos create difculties in documenting this territory most women need permission from
a male relative to be photographed. In 2009, National Geographic magazine commissioned Addario
to photograph a comprehensive essay depicting the many facets of womens lives in Afghanistan.
The exhibition, Veiled Rebellion, grew out of this assignment.
http://www.lynseyaddario.com
GALLERY
VEILED REBELLIONThe Lives of Women in Afghanistan
Lynsey Addario | 18.08.12 - 13.10.12
9 SIDE | NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE | NE1 3JE | 0191 232 2208 | TUES - SAT: 11AM-5PM | THURS 11AM-7PM | FREE