KHALID HADID DISASTERS OF WAR

The story behind the images begins when an 11-year-old boy, Khalid Hadi, was made a photographer at a relief foundation in Kandahar for victims of the Soviet-Afghan war. He portrayed casualties of the conflict with a wooden box camera for three years. Later, he took pictures for the Taliban, but then fled to the United States, where by chance he met photographer Edward Grazda. This book illustrates a fraction of Khalids photographs. The silent beauty of the weathered images suggests the shocking violence of an outrageous occupation. A...[Read more]