Ilkka Uimonen: Faces of Afghanistan
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Ilkka Uimonen: Faces of Afghanistan

Learning to Walk
Kabul, 1998

The majority of patients at this orthopedic hospital are children without arms and legs. I watched as some struggled to use prostheses. In Kabul children playing outside often pick up the brightly colored or strangely shaped antipersonnel land mines and unexploded ordnance that riddle the city. Few escape death or maiming.