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Additional authors

1. Grazda, Ed, 1947-
2. Birk, Lukas

Description

1. 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, portraits; 20 cm +

Summary

1. "An 11-year-old boy, Khalid Hadi, was made a photographer at a [relief] foundation for victims of the Afghan-Soviet war in Kandahar, South Afghanistan. Orphans, wounded fighters, civilians. For three years he photographed 10.000 casualties of the conflict with a wooden box camera for the administration of the foundation. When the Taliban took over most of Afghanistan, he was [determined] to continue working as photographer and took a job for the oppressive rulers: taking pictures of infrastructure and other Taliban projects. But after a few years he could not bear it any longer and fled to the USA where by chance he encountered the renowned photographer Edward Grazda. This was in 2001, just before 9/11. Khalid presented Edward with a photograph of the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, which he took 8 years prior at the foundation. Mullah Omar's eye was wounded while fighting as a Mujahedin. At this time Mullah Omar, although a most wanted figure, was a mystery and no known photograph of him was available. With the help of Edward the image was made public via Magnum. Disasters of War, edited by Edward Grazda, illustrates a fraction of Khalid's photographs in his years as box camera photographer. The silent beauty of the weathered images hold a shocking violence of an outrageous occupation with hundreds of thousands victims. A piece of history almost forgotten outside of Afghanistan, yet it was the very beginning of the formation of terrorist groups, backed by western powers in the last years of the cold war. International terrorist groups that still echo throughout the world."--Publisher's website

Alternative title

1. Disasters of war : portraits by Khalid Hadi

Subject

1. 1979-1989
2. Portrait photography > Afghanistan
3. War photography > Afghanistan
4. War victims > Afghanistan > Portraits
5. Afghans > Portraits
6. War victims
7. Afghans
8. Portrait photography
9. War photography
10. Afghanistan > History > Soviet occupation, 1979-1989
11. Afghanistan
12. Soviet Union

Genre/Form

1. Portraits.
2. History.

Call number

1. MFXZ (Hadi) 22-150

Note

1. Issued in envelope.
2. Edition of 400 numbered, including 18 special edition copies with 1 silver gelatin box camera print, and 4 special edition copies with 2 silver gelatin box camera prints.

Language (note)

1. English, with essay in accompanying booklet in English and Pushto.

Author

1. Hadi, Khalid, photographer.

Title

1. Disasters of war / portraits by Khalid Hadi ; concept, design, sequence & text by Edward Grazda ; essay by Lukas Birk.

Publisher

1. [Place of publication not identified] : Fraglich Publishing, [2021]

Manufacturer

1. New Delhi : Naveen Printers

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Language

1. English, with essay in accompanying booklet in English and Pushto.

Local note

1. Library has copy no.: 228/400 (from accompanying envelope).

Chronological term

1. 1979-1989

Added author

1. Grazda, Ed, 1947- editor.
2. Birk, Lukas, writer of supplementary text.

ISBN

1. 9783950277364
2. 3950277366

Research call number

1. MFXZ (Hadi) 22-150