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Former teahouse in a park next to the Afghan Exhibition of Economic
and Social Achievements in the Shah Shahid district of Kabul. Balloons were illegal under the
Taliban, but now balloon-sellers are common on the streets of Kabul
providing cheap treats for children.
Teahouse, Afganistan, 2001 by Robert Gwathney
• Simon was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1963 and educated in England finishing at Oxford and Bristol Universities with a degree in Philosophy and Sociology. After leaving the Documentary Photography course in Newport, South Wales he worked for far-left publications specializing in work on anti-racist activities and fascist groups, in particular the British National Party. In 1994 he gave up photojournalism in favor of landscape photography.
Heavy munitions were brought up to the mouth of the Salang
Tunnel by Ahmed Shah Massoud in case he needed
to blow the tunnel. These Soviet cluster bombs now lie
in the grounds of Olang Elementary School.
Bullet-scarred apartment building and shops in the
Karte Char district of Kabul. This area saw fighting
between Hikmetyar and Rabbani and then between Rabbani and the Hazaras.
Near Deh Mazang in the Karte Char district of Kabul, the
scene of fierce fighting in the early 1990's between rival Mujaheddin factions. Red
paint on buildings indicates the presence of unexploded
ordnance. The white 'tick' means it has been cleared.
Old biplane on a display plinth at the Exhibition Grounds in Kabul. Fighting birds are a
source of great pride to Afghan men, but were banned by the Taliban as un-Islamic.
Victory arch built by the Northern Alliance at the
entrance to a local commander's HQ in Bamiyan. The empty niche housed the smaller of the two Buddhas, destroyed by the Taliban in
2001.
Wrecked Ariana Afghan Airlines jets at Kabul Airport pushed into a mined area at
the edge of the apron.