On the streets of Afghan Cities


  • Photographer
    abel ruiz de leon trespando
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Company/Studios
    Freelancer
  • Date of Photograph
    2010-2011
  • Technical Info
    Nikon F 100, Film Tri X 400

The Afghan people are trying to reclaim their lives after years of war. Children return to play in the streets, even in the cemeteries of the cities, parks improvised. Women lose freedoms after early gains, after the overthrow of the Taliban from power. Their veils are still in prisons. Women are convicted of crimes at home. The street children begging and food on the streets. The drug punishes the poorest neighborhoods and youths. The consequences of years of explosive mined cities are thousands of people with prosthetic legs.

Story

The Afghan people are trying to reclaim their lives after years of war. Children return to play in the streets, even in the cemeteries of the cities, parks improvised. Ninety-seven percent of Afghan children, children under 16 years have witnessed violence at least once in their life. 65 percent of Afghan children have a family member die by war.

Women lose freedoms after early gains, after the overthrow of the Taliban from power. Their veils are still in prisons. Women are convicted of crimes at home. They survive in inhumane prisons, accompanied by their young children.

The society recovers their daily activities in fear of revenge attacks by Islamists.

The street children begging and food on the streets. The drug punishes the poorest neighborhoods and youths. Afghanistan is the country of the world's top opium exports, 92 percent. Now, the Afghans also take the drug.

7 percent are children of drug addicts, 13 percent are women.

The ruins of war are still present. Centuries of hostility and violence among ethnic groups. Attempts also failed colonialism and disputes with little value spaces.

The consequences of years of explosive mined cities are thousands of people with prosthetic legs. Hospitals without sanitary facilities. Strafed buildings. Survival in some poorer countries in the world.

Ten years of military occupation, only solutions or improvements.

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