Once upon a time in Afghanistan
Posted in Life by sanela | Tags: Afghanistan, hope, images, past, societyOn a recent trip to Afghanistan, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox drew fire for calling it “a broken 13th-century country.” The most common objection was not that he was wrong, but that he was overly blunt. He’s hardly the first Westerner to label Afghanistan as medieval. Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince recently described the country as inhabited by “barbarians” with “a 1200 A.D. mentality.” Many assume that’s all Afghanistan has ever been — an ungovernable land where chaos is carved into the hills. Given the images people see on TV and the headlines written about Afghanistan over the past three decades of war, many conclude the country never made it out of the Middle Ages.
One woman hundred faces
Posted in Arts by sanela | Tags: Life, photography, society, transformation, womanPhotographer Nienke Klunder decided to present in this collection of self portraits the problem of modern woman and all different roles that she has to play in her life. I like her make-up and costumes and think that her ability for transformation is really amazing! What do you think?
