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URGENCY! Afghanistan
URGENCY! Afghanistan
October 27, 2021
Paula Bronstein: Displaced Afghans head into Kabul from the northern provinces on August 10, 2021 © Paula Bronstein / Getty Images
The Bronx Documentary Center presents works by Tim Hetherington and others to raise awareness of the plight of Afghanistan. The showcase continues until November 14, 2021.
The exhibition ‘URGENCY! Afghanistan’ at the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) features works by more than half a dozen photojournalists who covered the U.S. military’s twenty-year mission in Afghanistan. Photographs from 2001 are juxtaposed with images showing the Taliban forces taking control of Kabul during the last week of August 2021. The BDC continues to receive new images from photographers currently in Afghanistan, and will be updating the show in real time.
The represented photographers include Victor J. Blue, Paula Bronstein, David Gilkey, Kiana Hayeri, Jim Huylebroek, Joao Silva, among others. The showcase also features photographs and multimedia works by David Gilkey, who lost his life in Afghanistan in 2016, and images by Tim Hetherington, who was killed in action in 2011.
The BDC’s new URGENCY! series is a real-time response to critical worldwide events in the form of exhibitions and public programmes.
For further information visit Bronx Documentary Center
The exhibition ‘URGENCY! Afghanistan’ at the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) features works by more than half a dozen photojournalists who covered the U.S. military’s twenty-year mission in Afghanistan. Photographs from 2001 are juxtaposed with images showing the Taliban forces taking control of Kabul during the last week of August 2021. The BDC continues to receive new images from photographers currently in Afghanistan, and will be updating the show in real time.
The represented photographers include Victor J. Blue, Paula Bronstein, David Gilkey, Kiana Hayeri, Jim Huylebroek, Joao Silva, among others. The showcase also features photographs and multimedia works by David Gilkey, who lost his life in Afghanistan in 2016, and images by Tim Hetherington, who was killed in action in 2011.
The BDC’s new URGENCY! series is a real-time response to critical worldwide events in the form of exhibitions and public programmes.
For further information visit Bronx Documentary Center
Paula Bronstein: Displaced Afghans head into Kabul from the northern provinces on August 10, 2021 © Paula Bronstein / Getty Images
Victor J. Blue: Soldiers from the Afghan Special Forces ODA 6060, 6th Battalion, Afghan Commandos, fight Taliban militants in the Dasht-e-Archi district in the Kunduz province, Afghanistan, November 10, 2015 © Victor J. Blue
Joao Silva: A heavily armed Mujahideen warrior manning a Kabul downtown checkpoint questions a young teenager during the conflict in Afghanistan, 1999 © Joao Silva / PictureNET Africa
Andrea Bruce: Afghan women and children mourn the loss of family members, who were killed in a raid by U.S. Special Forces, near Jalalabad, Afghanistan on May 16, 2010
© Andrea Bruce / NOOR
David P. Gilkey: Veteran Lance Cpl. Josue Barron with his glass eye, which is emblazoned with the insigne of the 3/5 battalion. October 2011. © David P. Gilkey / NPR