Tag Archives: Afghanistan

Sticking Our Head In The Sand

Larry Towell is looking for money for a new project in Afghanistan and has placed his request on Kickstarter. This would all have been fine had it not been for the fact that he is doing the wrong project. Larry Towell has been an inspiration, one of the first photographers whose works compelled me to […]

December 29, 2010 – 12:20 pm | By arafiqui | Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Journalism, Photography | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Sticking Our Head In The Sand

Photographing The Unseen

Trevor Paglen is a man on a mission and it is one that reminds us that what makes any work of photography relevant, interesting, important or even significant, are the ideas and intentions that inform it. Anything else is merely gazing at pretty pictures.

July 27, 2010 – 1:20 pm | By arafiqui | Posted in American And Her Wars, Essays On Embedded Photojournalism, Photography | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Photographing The Unseen

Fear The Pushtun Bogeyman

Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Engaging the Muslim World. He has a regular column at Salon.com. and writes the Informed Comment blog. He has now written what I think is the first piece that connects modern day American imperialist paranoia in […]

July 28, 2009 – 9:29 am | By arafiqui | Posted in American And Her Wars | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Fear The Pushtun Bogeyman

Fighting Ghosts And Selling The Good War Or Why Are The Toy Soldiers On The Front Lines!

The silence is deafening. As American troops are dropped in on Afghanistan to fight their fantasy war, there is no sound from our defenders of truth and checkers of power i.e. the media, about the operation, its objectives, our continued presence in the country, our blood thirsty allies, our ‘pretend’ Afghani democracy, our support of […]

July 9, 2009 – 11:04 am | By arafiqui | Posted in American And Her Wars, Journalism, Photography | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Fighting Ghosts And Selling The Good War Or Why Are The Toy Soldiers On The Front Lines!