Afghanistan / Portrait # 6

    Afghanistan - Sep 2005

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    1. ⓅⒶⓎⓅⒶⓊⓁ (56 months ago | reply)

      at first glance it looks like a gesture of support for America and sympathy for our grief. But I'm not quite sure what to make of it. Quite a compelling intriguing image.

    2. rumpelstiltzkin (56 months ago | reply)

      this piece of tapestry has always intrigued me... i'm not an expert on afghanistan but after traveling around part of the country i tend to think most people there don't have any way of understanding 9/11... they are just too poor and too uninformed... my guess (and it's a cruel guess, i admit) is that this piece was made by an artisan that just had a very vague idea about 9/11.... but he wanted to have something to sell to the few aid workers, reporters and soldiers that walk around kabul...

    3. World Picture Service (56 months ago | reply)

      In 1999 (so before the great disaster in N.Y.C.) I walked around on a market in Tabora (Tanzania) and I found a stall of secondhand clothes. This stall was called "Osama Binladen Auction Mart".
      I asked the owner: "Who is Osama Bin Laden? Is that you?"
      The owner didn't have a clue. He just got the name from somebody. He actually did very good business. I myself have bought a nice bag from "Osama" ....
      (PS. The picture of this stall (and all my Tanzanian pictures) will be on Flickr in the near future)

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    5. prdsra (54 months ago | reply)

      Compliments, I like it;
      Please add this photo to the your preferred picture group.

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    7. mariamw73 [deleted] (42 months ago | reply)

      Wow nice picture.
      You can get those 9/11 rugs from
      www.zarinas.com/

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    9. David C. Foster (21 months ago | reply)

      Excellent photo and we’d love to have it added to: “Global Photojournalism; Politics, News, Protest, and Society” www.flickr.com/groups/1467908@N22/ and any additional photos that fit the description of our group.

      Thanks

      David

    10. Kombizz (20 months ago | reply)

      good/

    11. This photo was invited and added to the Global Photojournalism; Politics, News, Protest, and Culture group.

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