Today my book “Dynamite and Prayers:Emerald Miners of Afghanistan” officially goes ON SALE in the United States in advance of an exhibit of my photographs during the PhotoNOLA festival in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Second Story Gallery at 2372 St. Claude Avenue from December 10th to the 13th, 2015.
Daily we see images of the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants fleeing war or seeking new lives flooding into Europe. According to the UNHCR more than half of the world’s refugees are from Syria, Afghanistan or Somalia. The Obama administration is making plans to raise the number of refugees accepted in the United States to as high as 100,000 in the coming years, an increase from 70,000 refugees allowed in this year. In Europe, kindness has prevailed for those who have taken these refugees into their homes and fear has spread where people have had…
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Who and why did destroy they countries and systems? We deal firstly with brutal political manipulations and nobody wants to address it?
The suffering people are the results of such policies.
Who and why did destroy their countries and systems? We deal firstly with brutal political manipulations and nobody wants to address it? Can the author attach also pictures of the key architects of such malicious social manipulations with their families living in the most prestigious residential areas, enjoying nice houses with happy children, nicely dresses wives, swimming pools and cheap maids? – it would represent awakening many people a very good ‘social contrast’.
The photographed suffering people are the results of such policies.