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Ilkka Uimonen: Faces of Afghanistan

Afternoon Calm
Bagram, 1996

I took a taxi to reach the Taliban’s front line, where armed guerrillas were awaiting orders for their next move. The soldiers, almost all young men and boys, have known only war. They rule through destruction. Guns are everywhere.