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Chris Sands: War Studies Scholar
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War photography: 2005-2018
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Chris Sands: War Studies Scholar
About
Academic work
Books
Journalism
War photography: 2005-2018
Kabul Photography
Ephemera
Contact
About
Academic work
Books
Journalism
War photography: 2005-2018
Kabul Photography
Ephemera
Contact
 Jalalabad Road, Kabul. November 2017. View fullsize
 The Old City, December 2010. View fullsize
 Khoshal Khan, January 2011. View fullsize
 Preparing for a dog fight. Eid Gah, February 2011. View fullsize
 A billboard in the neighbourhood of Nawabadi Guzargah promoting the Afghan police. April 2012. View fullsize
 The road to and from the airport as viewed from Bibi Mehroo hill. April 2012. View fullsize
 Shirpur, December 2010. View fullsize
 Mikroryan Awal, September 2009. View fullsize
 Kabul city centre, January 2011.  View fullsize
 The view of Kart-e-Char and Kart-e-Se from Guzargah, December 2010. View fullsize
 The Russian Cultural Centre, which was destroyed during the 1992-1996 civil war.   July 2012. View fullsize
 Near Pul-e-Sorkhta during Muharram, December 2010. View fullsize
 Aliabad, December 2011. View fullsize
 Abdul Baqir, a policeman during the communist era, at home in a derelict building near the US Embassy. February 2010. View fullsize
 Abdul Baqir's clock, February 2010. View fullsize
 Koli Hashmat Khan, November 2010. View fullsize
 Kart-e-Char, December 2010. View fullsize
 Mushtaq Noori, bookseller. July 2012. View fullsize
 Kart-e-Naw, September 2011. View fullsize
 Former refugees living in a derelict building in Kart-e-Naw after moving back to Afghanistan from Pakistan. January 2009. View fullsize
 A view of the Silo, September 2011. View fullsize
 Kart-e-Naw, December 2011. View fullsize
 Between Dashti Barchi and Pul-e-Sorkhta during Muharram, December 2010. View fullsize
 A derelict building in Darulaman used by internally displaced families from Kunduz. December 2009. View fullsize
 Mohammed Niam, a psychiatric patient. September 2006. View fullsize
 Boxers, Ghazi Stadium. April 2009. View fullsize
 Sharifa Sherzad Allahdad, provincial councillor. December 2009. View fullsize
 The Old City, December 2010. View fullsize
 Chicken Street, Shahr-e-Naw. December 2009. View fullsize
 Dashti Barchi, December 2010. View fullsize
 The view towards Afshar from Guzargah, December 2010 View fullsize
 The Old City, December 2010. View fullsize
 Reza Husseini, artist. July 2012. View fullsize
 Taymani, January 2011. View fullsize
 Shirpur, February 2011. View fullsize
 Dayan Singh Anjaan, a member of Kabul's dwindling Sikh community. Khair Khana, January 2009. View fullsize
 Kart-e-Char, Kabul. December 2010. View fullsize
 Banners on display in Koti Sangi during Muharram. December 2011. View fullsize
 The Old City, December 2010. View fullsize
 Agha Mohammed (left) had been living in Pakistan prior to the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan. He now lives in a derelict building once used as kindergarten. "When we cam back to Afghanistan we were very optimistic that we would have o View fullsize
 Kabul Zoo, November 2008. View fullsize
 A gym in Shahr-e-Naw. May 2008. View fullsize
 The view towards Company and the road south to Kandahar. April 2012. View fullsize
 Dashti Barchi, September 2012. View fullsize
 Kolola Pushta, January 2010. View fullsize
 Kabul River, January 2011. View fullsize
 Rahmatullah at home with his wife and children in a derelict building near the US Embassy.  February 2010. View fullsize
 Jadi Maiwand, January 2011. View fullsize
 Kids at a drinks stall selling black market alcohol. Maslakh, April 2008.  View fullsize
 Darulaman, March 2009. View fullsize
 A psychiatric patent, February 2010. View fullsize
 Hamid Karzai and his two vice presidents, Mohammed Qasim Fahim (left) and Abdul Karim Khalili (right).   Sharokay Haji Nabi, January 2011. View fullsize
 Maqbara-e-Timur Shah, January 2011. View fullsize
 Kabul River, January 2011. View fullsize
 Deh Mehzang, February 2010. View fullsize
 Behind the Russian Embassy, September 2011. View fullsize
 Boxers, Ghazi Stadium. April 2009. View fullsize
 Pir Mohammed Karwan, poet. September 2011. View fullsize
 Former refugees at home in a derelict building in Deh Mazang. February 2010. View fullsize
 Tapa-e-Taj Beg, November 2011. View fullsize
 Pul-e Sorkh, September 2011. View fullsize
 The view north from TV Hill. March 2012. View fullsize
 The tomb of Sayyid Jamaluddin al-Afghani, writer and pan-Islamist. Kabul University, February 2011 View fullsize
 Jangalak, November 2011. View fullsize
 Mohammed Bakhir Sheikh Zada, MP for Kabul. September 2010. View fullsize
 Jangalak, November 2011. View fullsize
 Pul-e-Sorkhta, August 2009. View fullsize
 The tomb of king Zahir Shah and his father, Nader Shah. January 2011. View fullsize
 Ghulam Sakhi at home in a derelict building in Deh Mazang, February 2010. View fullsize
 Ghazi Stadium, December 2012. View fullsize
 Kart-e-Sakhi, January 2009. View fullsize
 Near Kart-e-Ariana, May 2009. View fullsize
 Mirajan Sahiki, minister in the Mujahideen government. November 2011. View fullsize
 Chilsitoon, January 2012. View fullsize
 One of the many Afghans who have returned from Pakistan since the 2001 US-led invasion and now find themselves living in derelict buildings in Kabul. Deh Mazang, February 2010. View fullsize
 Near Darulaman, May 2010. View fullsize
 The Old City, December 2010. View fullsize
 Reza Jafari, 22, a drug user for eight years. He started out smoking hash while living in Iran. After returning to live in Afghanistan he began injecting heroin.  The Nejat Centre, June 2009. View fullsize
 Recovering drug addicts. The Nejat Centre, June 2009. View fullsize
 Bibi Mehroo hill, July 2010. View fullsize
 Wazir Akbar Khan, February 2013. View fullsize
 Drug addicts in the ruins of the Russian Cultural Centre. February 2009. View fullsize
 Kart-e-Sakhi, February 2011. View fullsize
 On the road to Shomali, September 2011. View fullsize
 North Kabul, including the airport, as viewed from Bib Mehroo hill. April 2012. View fullsize
 The view towards Afshar from Guzargah, December 2010 View fullsize
 Female boxers, Ghazi Stadium. February 2011. View fullsize
 Chilsitoon, January 2012. View fullsize
 Near Kohi Aliabad, September 2011. View fullsize
 Shah Do Shamshira mosque, February 2011. View fullsize
 Kart-e-Char,  View fullsize
 The Ministry of Communication, April 2013. View fullsize
 Shirpur, February 2011. View fullsize
 Gul Zaman, psychiatric patient. February 2012. View fullsize
 Darulaman, December 2009.  View fullsize
 Near Darulaman, March 2011. View fullsize
 Chindawul, November 2009. View fullsize
 A view of Kart-e-Sakhi from TV Hill, March 2012. View fullsize
 Aliabad, December 2011. View fullsize
 Kart-e-Char, February 2011. View fullsize
 Saray Shomali, December 2011. View fullsize
 Koti Sangi, December 2011. View fullsize
 The main road north. December 2011. View fullsize
 Zabolon Simantov, the last member of Afghanistan's once thriving Jewish community. Photographed in the country's only remaining synagogue.  Shahr-e-Naw, February 2009. View fullsize
 Behind the Russian Embassy, September 2011. View fullsize
 Jadi Maiwand, September 2011. View fullsize
 Chilsitoon, January 2012 View fullsize
 Chilsitoon, January 2012. View fullsize
 Mohammed Gul, psychiatric patients. February 2012. View fullsize
 Jangalak, November 2011. View fullsize
 Shirpur, February 2012. View fullsize
 Shirpur, December 2010. View fullsize
 Mustafa Sakhizada, 24. A heroin addict. December 2012. View fullsize
femaleskeleton_5819.jpg View fullsize
 The Bala Hissar, February 2012. View fullsize
 Shahr-e-Naw, November 2010. View fullsize
 Drug addicts in the ruins of the Russian Cultural Centre. February 2009. View fullsize
 Khoshal Khan, March 2011. View fullsize
 Shahr-e-Naw, November 2010. View fullsize
 The Russian Cultural Centre, November 2010. View fullsize
 Pul-e Sorkhta, December 2011. View fullsize
 Shahrara, December 2011. View fullsize
 Khoshal Khan, January 2011. View fullsize
 The view from Guzargah towards Bagh-e-Babur, December 2010 View fullsize
 The view from Tapa Nader Khan, Kabul. January 2011. View fullsize
 Jalalabad Road, Kabul. November 2017.
 The Old City, December 2010.
 Khoshal Khan, January 2011.
 Preparing for a dog fight. Eid Gah, February 2011.
 A billboard in the neighbourhood of Nawabadi Guzargah promoting the Afghan police. April 2012.
 The road to and from the airport as viewed from Bibi Mehroo hill. April 2012.
 Shirpur, December 2010.
 Mikroryan Awal, September 2009.
 Kabul city centre, January 2011. 
 The view of Kart-e-Char and Kart-e-Se from Guzargah, December 2010.
 The Russian Cultural Centre, which was destroyed during the 1992-1996 civil war.   July 2012.
 Near Pul-e-Sorkhta during Muharram, December 2010.
 Aliabad, December 2011.
 Abdul Baqir, a policeman during the communist era, at home in a derelict building near the US Embassy. February 2010.
 Abdul Baqir's clock, February 2010.
 Koli Hashmat Khan, November 2010.
 Kart-e-Char, December 2010.
 Mushtaq Noori, bookseller. July 2012.
 Kart-e-Naw, September 2011.
 Former refugees living in a derelict building in Kart-e-Naw after moving back to Afghanistan from Pakistan. January 2009.
 A view of the Silo, September 2011.
 Kart-e-Naw, December 2011.
 Between Dashti Barchi and Pul-e-Sorkhta during Muharram, December 2010.
 A derelict building in Darulaman used by internally displaced families from Kunduz. December 2009.
 Mohammed Niam, a psychiatric patient. September 2006.
 Boxers, Ghazi Stadium. April 2009.
 Sharifa Sherzad Allahdad, provincial councillor. December 2009.
 The Old City, December 2010.
 Chicken Street, Shahr-e-Naw. December 2009.
 Dashti Barchi, December 2010.
 The view towards Afshar from Guzargah, December 2010
 The Old City, December 2010.
 Reza Husseini, artist. July 2012.
 Taymani, January 2011.
 Shirpur, February 2011.
 Dayan Singh Anjaan, a member of Kabul's dwindling Sikh community. Khair Khana, January 2009.
 Kart-e-Char, Kabul. December 2010.
 Banners on display in Koti Sangi during Muharram. December 2011.
 The Old City, December 2010.
 Agha Mohammed (left) had been living in Pakistan prior to the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan. He now lives in a derelict building once used as kindergarten. "When we cam back to Afghanistan we were very optimistic that we would have o
 Kabul Zoo, November 2008.
 A gym in Shahr-e-Naw. May 2008.
 The view towards Company and the road south to Kandahar. April 2012.
 Dashti Barchi, September 2012.
 Kolola Pushta, January 2010.
 Kabul River, January 2011.
 Rahmatullah at home with his wife and children in a derelict building near the US Embassy.  February 2010.
 Jadi Maiwand, January 2011.
 Kids at a drinks stall selling black market alcohol. Maslakh, April 2008. 
 Darulaman, March 2009.
 A psychiatric patent, February 2010.
 Hamid Karzai and his two vice presidents, Mohammed Qasim Fahim (left) and Abdul Karim Khalili (right).   Sharokay Haji Nabi, January 2011.
 Maqbara-e-Timur Shah, January 2011.
 Kabul River, January 2011.
 Deh Mehzang, February 2010.
 Behind the Russian Embassy, September 2011.
 Boxers, Ghazi Stadium. April 2009.
 Pir Mohammed Karwan, poet. September 2011.
 Former refugees at home in a derelict building in Deh Mazang. February 2010.
 Tapa-e-Taj Beg, November 2011.
 Pul-e Sorkh, September 2011.
 The view north from TV Hill. March 2012.
 The tomb of Sayyid Jamaluddin al-Afghani, writer and pan-Islamist. Kabul University, February 2011
 Jangalak, November 2011.
 Mohammed Bakhir Sheikh Zada, MP for Kabul. September 2010.
 Jangalak, November 2011.
 Pul-e-Sorkhta, August 2009.
 The tomb of king Zahir Shah and his father, Nader Shah. January 2011.
 Ghulam Sakhi at home in a derelict building in Deh Mazang, February 2010.
 Ghazi Stadium, December 2012.
 Kart-e-Sakhi, January 2009.
 Near Kart-e-Ariana, May 2009.
 Mirajan Sahiki, minister in the Mujahideen government. November 2011.
 Chilsitoon, January 2012.
 One of the many Afghans who have returned from Pakistan since the 2001 US-led invasion and now find themselves living in derelict buildings in Kabul. Deh Mazang, February 2010.
 Near Darulaman, May 2010.
 The Old City, December 2010.
 Reza Jafari, 22, a drug user for eight years. He started out smoking hash while living in Iran. After returning to live in Afghanistan he began injecting heroin.  The Nejat Centre, June 2009.
 Recovering drug addicts. The Nejat Centre, June 2009.
 Bibi Mehroo hill, July 2010.
 Wazir Akbar Khan, February 2013.
 Drug addicts in the ruins of the Russian Cultural Centre. February 2009.
 Kart-e-Sakhi, February 2011.
 On the road to Shomali, September 2011.
 North Kabul, including the airport, as viewed from Bib Mehroo hill. April 2012.
 The view towards Afshar from Guzargah, December 2010
 Female boxers, Ghazi Stadium. February 2011.
 Chilsitoon, January 2012.
 Near Kohi Aliabad, September 2011.
 Shah Do Shamshira mosque, February 2011.
 Kart-e-Char, 
 The Ministry of Communication, April 2013.
 Shirpur, February 2011.
 Gul Zaman, psychiatric patient. February 2012.
 Darulaman, December 2009. 
 Near Darulaman, March 2011.
 Chindawul, November 2009.
 A view of Kart-e-Sakhi from TV Hill, March 2012.
 Aliabad, December 2011.
 Kart-e-Char, February 2011.
 Saray Shomali, December 2011.
 Koti Sangi, December 2011.
 The main road north. December 2011.
 Zabolon Simantov, the last member of Afghanistan's once thriving Jewish community. Photographed in the country's only remaining synagogue.  Shahr-e-Naw, February 2009.
 Behind the Russian Embassy, September 2011.
 Jadi Maiwand, September 2011.
 Chilsitoon, January 2012
 Chilsitoon, January 2012.
 Mohammed Gul, psychiatric patients. February 2012.
 Jangalak, November 2011.
 Shirpur, February 2012.
 Shirpur, December 2010.
 Mustafa Sakhizada, 24. A heroin addict. December 2012.
femaleskeleton_5819.jpg
 The Bala Hissar, February 2012.
 Shahr-e-Naw, November 2010.
 Drug addicts in the ruins of the Russian Cultural Centre. February 2009.
 Khoshal Khan, March 2011.
 Shahr-e-Naw, November 2010.
 The Russian Cultural Centre, November 2010.
 Pul-e Sorkhta, December 2011.
 Shahrara, December 2011.
 Khoshal Khan, January 2011.
 The view from Guzargah towards Bagh-e-Babur, December 2010
 The view from Tapa Nader Khan, Kabul. January 2011.