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Woman in bright blue burka travels a lonely dirt path amid the ruins of Kabul.
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John Stanmeyer
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Poster: John Stanmeyer
Caption: Afghanistan has had to live in a complete landscape of destroyed society like the woman walking through the ruins.
This woman might have been heading back from the market, she might have been coming or going visiting a friend.
Poster: John Stanmeyer
Caption: Afghanistan has had to live in a complete landscape of destroyed society like the woman walking through the ruins.
This woman she might have been heading back from the market, she might have been coming or going visiting a friend.
Poster: stephanie serrano
Caption: Faithful follower among the ruins.
Poster: Tony
Caption: Time for change is NOW.
Poster: James Arthur
Caption: These ruins represent our human nature to destroy, rebuild, prosper, corrupt, reform and then continue with this circle of behavior, over the centuries in all civilizations.
Poster: soycommunista@home.com
Caption: John's photo does not make me think. It makes me feel icky. Icky about 20 years of the rubble of war being bombed again, and how the Afghan people are pawns in a global chessgame. How does this woman keep going? What is she feeling?
Thank you for this opportunity to meditate on this war
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Caption: No matter what, this is my home and my childrens' home and I live to thrive.
Poster: Helen
Caption: Escape to Nowhere
Poster: Terry Maguire
Caption: Afghanistan conjures up the image of covered women, like this one, and land that has lost its cover, as has happened here.
Poster: Douglas L. Leiva
Caption: There are times when the present makes itself present in spite of the future and the past. Civilization and Patriarchy at the hour of visitation.
Poster: Gail K Beil
Caption: Defeat of the Taliban meant this woman could make a solitary journey through the ruins of Kabul. She knows what the past has provided. Now, the question becomes, will these ruins define her future?
Poster: Daniel Khan
Caption: Beautiful Devastation
Unlike the destruction in New York City, the ruins of Kabul appear to be growing out of earth that originally provided their simple natural building materials.
The Burka seems like an extremely practical and elegant wardrobe for the dry barren environment.
Poster: Patrick Sullivan
Caption: Desolation:
that we (human race) are destroying the planet we live on.
Poster: Michael Patterson
Caption: The return of time immemorial
Poster: Frank O'Hara
Caption: The image strikes a sense of freedom and the Distance Mountains gives a vision. Just as she is hidden with her burka, I know my excessive American liberties has caused me to hide and be inattentive towards understanding developing countries, their culture, their values, their needs.
If we cannot physically walk this path together, perhaps spiritually we should focus our attention and responsibility from a shared sense on how can begin to care for one another.
War always leaves scars and physical damage to the environment. Communities can be rebuilt, but women are left the victims
My challenge in this rebuilding process is how I can contribute to the common good of mankind. Personal liberties carry the requirement to be thinking and act responsible. I need to rethink how I am contributing to the common good on this long journey.
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Poster: Pamela Tomassetti
Caption: I am reminded of a RAWA spokesperson's comment that dropping bombs on Afganistan is like bombing a graveyard.
Poster: Bob Connelly
Caption: blue
Poster: Barbara Spengler
Caption: Afghan woman, hope for the future of Afghanistan.
Poster: Laura J. Hougen
Caption: May the death of the landscape bring rebirth to the Afghanistani WOMEN!
Poster: Jim
Caption: Just as the landscape of this picture looks like a totally different world than the one we live in, I don't think people here in the US can possibly begin to understand the hardships that these people have lived through.
Poster: JOSIE SCHODROF
Caption: PURGATORY
Poster: Jose Damian Gutierrez
Caption: In the midst of this rubble I can hear the voices of my childhood and I am only certain today that any past time is better. Lord! Why have you abandoned your children?
Poster: Egin Bresnig
Caption: Woman looking for a supermarket and also looking for her God, who let all this happen!
Poster: Linda
Caption: The plight of many women (loneliness, quiet desperation, nowhere to turn, and seeminly no one to help) in today's world is no different from the bondage of slaves. WHEN WILL THIS CHANGE?
Poster: Julie Slowik
Caption: Relentless amidst brokenness
Poster: W.Herrera
Caption: If there is such a thing a hell, this is it, especially if you're born a woman.
Everyone regardless of sex has to right to equality. This garbage where women are treated no better than stray dogs has to end. the sooner the better!
Poster: jackie
Caption: the problemmatic aesthetics of beautifully photographed destruction
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Poster: joet
Caption:
from the
From The Valley of Death to The Valley of Doom, Please Help.
Poster: Sophia S
Caption: l wonder or only could imagine what this woman has been through.
l wonder if she is afraid. She's probably thinking of survival and nothing else.
l only wish her the best wherever she is going.
Poster: Lou Ann Vogler
Caption: Women, throughout history, have walked in the ruins created by men who care more about their philosophical differences than what really matters most-the care and safety of their families.
Poster: Lianne
Caption: Bending into the wind of devastation that has swept her country, this Afghan woman is among those wrestling for the cohesive energy, as well as monetary support, needed to restore the basic necessities & basic dignities of her life.
Poster: Suzyn Hutton Kelley
Caption: Although the destruction from warfare makes her walk look bleak, her future is actually looking much brighter now. Now she can walk without the fear of a Taliban abuse for inadvertantly breaching one of their inhumane strictures.
Poster: dtn
Caption: spirits seeking sanctuary
Poster: denise
Caption: Life amongst ruins..survival instinct alive and well even in Afganistan..
Poster: RON S
Caption: HOPE IN THE MIDST OF DESPAIR; AN OASIS IN THE MIDDLE OF A DESERT; PEACE IN THE MIDST OF A STORM; AND LIFE IN THE MIDST OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. BY THE GRACE OF GOD LIFE WILL GO ON AND BE FRUITFUL.
Poster: Diane L
Caption: Grace amidst insanity
Poster: LHW
Caption: It could be Yemen or many other countries in the world. The lesson learned should be don't ignore fellow earthlings in need.
Poster: Dee
Caption: My heart is pounding, my breath is fast, and my eyes are searhing for the first glimpse of my destination.
Poster: ileana
Caption: The certainty of suffering, struggle, devastation, and rebirth is what I see. I also see the simple and stark beauty of the landscape. Life goes on...
Poster: Deborah Conley
Caption: The results of patriarchy.
Poster: ldbodine4@aol.com
Caption: Safe Crossings on The Borderline of Hope---Unbroken Spirit, Walk On...
Poster: outrider
Caption: Destruction. So much destruction. Must continue. Does anyone care I'm here? Can you hear me Lord?
Poster: jigme Dadul
Caption: My Country Tibet, is no stranger to this!!!!! But unless somebody blows up something the international attention is meek and hypocritic!
Poster: jim
Caption: holy, holy, holy
Poster: Mary Hartup
Caption: We must show in humanitarian ways our compassion for the world's people.
Poster: Muyake
Caption: Whispering spirit neighbors move the sand and touch her cheek...ghosts at home watch the living pass...
Poster: andrea
Caption: searching for peace........? she is like a bird now (shoud take own initiative to change her life)
Poster: Judith
Caption: By her hunched, slow moving body, she reveals all:
Her world is forever steeped in rigid antiquity. Blasted by sand, stone, and religious fervor, she travels close to the ground.
Poster: Edward Marques
Caption: We human beings have to wake up. Wake up to life. We can not live our lives ignoring the suffering of other people. Our duty and obligation is to help and not destroy. These people are human beings just like us!!
Poster: Patrick
Caption: This picture demonstrates a lack of respect. A lack of respect not only for other cultures and civilizations, but also a lack of respect towards our mother. Mother Earth.
Poster: Jazzy
Caption: I think that she is afraid of letting other people see her face
and she does not want anyone to know who she is.
Poster: Tamara
Caption: The resilience of the Afghanistan people
Poster: Margie
Caption: Timelessness
Poster: ford welbourne
Caption: the woman appears to be moving...does that separate her from the ruins?
Poster: Deborah
Caption: An Afghan woman.
Could I endure what she has?
Poster: Ellen
Caption: Keep on Keepin' on.
Poster: Deborah Healey
Caption: We in the West consider ourselves worldly people. We know nothing.
Poster: info@find-a-therapist.com
Caption: A Woman's Journey - FindingStone
Poster: John Morrison
Caption: In tha ruins of Kandahar life still survives
Poster: BethS
Caption: Representative of the World: Remembering the past, present in the present, contemplating the future.
Poster: Luis
Caption: WALKING TOWARD THE FUTURE the picture shows a reflection of today's unfairnes in society while some people walk to a better future some people just walk.
Poster: bcfogle@aol.com
Caption: Searching for death.
Poster: Isa
Caption: are we really reduced to this. have we come far or going backwards. oh the sorrow
Poster: Jaqui Helvitz
Caption: After 2000 years, isn't time for a change.
Poster: susanwike
Caption: I was strong yesterday. I am strong today. I will be strong tomorrow. You cannot change that.
Poster: Sandy C
Caption: Life goes on.
Poster: Vivian
Caption: A day in the life of a woman who is trying to go on dispite the total hell of her circumstances and surroundings.Bravo for her courage!
Poster: Sirius
Caption: The Good:Woman, the Bad:Destruction, and the Ugly:Repression
Poster: nik
Caption: After long years of brutality and tyrannism, she can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel..keep walking to freedom...
Poster: joseph
Caption: some day the sun will rise.
Poster: Al Flynn
Caption: In the footsteps of Afghanistan's past...
Poster: Carrie Lanza
Caption: The ruins in this photo look ancient yet they are the result of recent events in Kabul. This woman in her burka is traversing both a physical and cultural landscape that is trying to determine itself in the context of ancient locale values and customs as well as a postmodern global struggle. Alone, she appears vulnerable, yet a survivor among the rubble. One can hope that there are opportunities for self-determination for her in this unstable new world.
Poster: Catherine
Caption: Woman of courage, may you encounter no landmines on your path. Safe journey to you and your sisters who hurry on with perseverence and determination. This devastation, too, you will overcome.
Poster: Janet
Caption: I fear, America will look like that in a short time! The American people are not being listened to. This woman alone, reminds me of the fact that she was the other half of an equasion that was also ignored. A very important part of the birth, and nurturer of a society.
Poster: Jeff Porter
Caption: No choice but to move forward. No time but now. No place but here. No greater burden but to drag this rubble along with you.
Poster: Anonymous
Caption: This woman walks in her daily surroundings, much as any of us goes about our daily business. Is she even aware that she has been photographed? On the other side of the planet, we see a world that is foreign to us. We cannot understand the hardships she has seen. We do not know if she is grateful for recent changes in Afghanistan or holds animosity for us. We do not know if she knows the loss, we felt September 11th or even cares.
I know I would like to help her. I would like to make a difference, but how?
How do we show the world we care and improve others standards of living without leaving behind the world we have become accustomed to? How do we do this without losing our drive, our will, and our desires to provide our own children an even better life than ours?
Poster: Mary
Caption: The image makes me think of a woman in bright blue traveling a lonely dirt road amid the ruins of Kabul.
Poster: Jenna
Caption: This used to be a city. But now it's just lonely.
Poster: bothina
Caption: what does not kill us makes us stronger she has the will to survie
Poster: Elmer Havens
Caption: What happened to my world?
Poster: Lisa
Caption: As this woman makes her way through everyday life at home
in Afghanistan, these ruins might symbolize all that desperately needs repair in the devasted nation; including health care, education, and agriculture.
Poster: tivana
Caption: I heard that the Russians didn't bomb the cities very much, is this destruction from US bombing? If it is we should all be ashamed, the bombing of Afghanistan is a sin against humanity.
Poster: chrystal
Caption: It's really sad to see what some people are really going through in this world.Most of us in America are blessed.
Poster: Siwel
Caption: May the future (around the bend) be better than the past.
Poster: Joe Jackson
Caption: The futility of war.
Poster: Dorothy
Caption: This land is her home, no matter who comes or who goes, she still lives there. She will continue caring for her family. For women, the real work of living will always go on.
Poster: Maura
Caption: Ascent from Hell....
Poster: Mary
Caption: My heart hurts for you that you have to live in the devastation that men have brought on this world by their foolish wars.
Poster: Doug Hill
Caption: Wonder of wonders: a blue flower emerging from the earth!
Poster: Mark
Caption: The reality that this image captures at that moment is beautiful to me.
Poster: Dina M
Caption: The courage to hang on and make it, in the face of desolation.
Poster: Wilma Thompson
Caption: The persistence of memory. (from the painting of the same name by Salvador Dali.) Will women ever live in a world to match their dreams?
Poster: Susan
Caption: We are all captives in the patriarchy that structures our lives and keeps us from acknowledging all our burdens even as crisis occurs. In this sense, women's images are not used in the same way as men's. When will we recognize that?
Poster: Emily
Caption: Hope and faith allows us to go on no matter what.
Poster: Dr C
Caption: There is no futue except for my next step.
Poster: Care for World Peace
Caption: She is walking in solitude and meditating. Praying for the strength to go on another moment and praying for the souls of her family and friends. Questioning why she was spared and what more can she do.
Poster: Caring
Caption: This woman is praying for the souls of her family and friends and questioning why she was spared. She is praying for strength.
Poster: Raj S.
Caption: We should make every citizen of all countries who took part in this destruction to walk the path of this woman to feel her pain, despair and may be then we will not see this type of picture again.
Poster: greg watruba
Caption: I am so blessed to have been born in america. God bless america!!
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Poster: Charles
Caption: We could not image that animals could live here,what about people. While we are thinking about our next holiday or a new house for example.what future do these people have?
Poster: Traore
Caption: How long will it take to make this place look like the way it was.
Poster: Traore
Caption: How long will it take to make this place look like the way it was?
Poster: Reepi
Caption: attire is only an illusion.It doesnot tell how free a woman is in a society.It's her right to freely choose is where her freedom rests.Here,she has chosen to walk alone through the ruins of the painful past to a destiny she is creating with each new step.
Poster: Reepi
Caption: attire is only an illusion.It doesnot tell how free a woman is in a society.It's her right to freely choose is where her freedom rests.Here,she has chosen to walk alone through the ruins of the painful past to a destiny she is creating with each new step.
Poster: Aumrita
Caption: you are a bold and beautiful woman.I may not see your face but feel your liberated spirit to create a path of your own.carry on.
Poster: Aubyn Freed
Caption: Afghani World View
Poster: Gina Salvi
Caption: Strenght and Fortitude, Against all odds!
Poster: Brenda
Caption: blue is my dress like the color of the sky
I walk in my faith
not even the shattered earth stops me
my faith leads and guides me to the place
beyond this -- to the heavenly blue sky
my dress reminds me of this.
Poster: Grace
Caption: Walk on, walk on, with hope in (y)our heart...
Poster: Jeane
Caption: This is her life, the only life she knows. She cannot imagine beyond trying to feed and care for her many children and expects nothing more in whatever future she may have.
Poster: Penny R
Caption: Life Amoung the Ruins
Poster: bruce
Caption: true faith and belief in your religion is a stark testimony to ones ability not to be made of steel but of mortor and stone.
Poster: Betty Gelinas
Caption: The human spirit is strong - her home is where her soul is.
Poster: Dee Brazil
Caption: She walks a path in a war-scarred landscape. Is she frightened or perhaps hungry? How has her life changed from the Russian occupation through the Taliban regime and now an American backed goverment? How can I, one American, have more impact on my government's policies and actions in lands such as these?
Poster: jkarls@akelarts.com
Caption: Welcome to the 21st century.
What would you do if this was your neighborhood?
Poster: Carolyn
Caption: SHE IS HOPE WALKING
THROUGH THE DEVESTATION
OF HUMAN ARROGANCE
Poster: Lynn Allen, Welch
Caption: For this could be any one of us, at some point in our life. This does not seem so unique if one realizes that we are all but children of this universe. All of the unique experiances are all part of the experiance we call life... What role do we want to play in the lives of those around us??? Is this the picture that we want to show the world as our contribution??? The questions are easy, the answers seem much harder to swallow
Poster: reg guomnam
Caption: it makes me think of invasion; invasion of her privacy, invasion of her culture, invasion of her relegion, invasion of her land, and above all invasion of her dignity, committed by self-rightous and ignorant outsiders.
Poster: anna
Caption: a sense of determination in the midst of madness.
Poster: Oropesa
Caption: Those who destroy see, know nothing, and cannot break the blessed human spirit...
Poster: Sj
Caption: Endurance
Poster: Charlie
Caption: The grace of life amidst the destructive nature of man.
Poster: Ronald
Caption: This picture could have have been from one thousand years ago or perhaps just last week. Where is progress in this world?
Poster: Raydaras
Caption: She goes on.
Poster: Softsilhoute
Caption: This image is too foreign for Westener's to fathom.
Poster: Marilyn S.
Caption: Surrounded by a crumbled world,
her strength for survival comes from within.
Poster: Joan Cook
Caption: The way is hard, but I am strong.
Poster: FARIEDO
Caption: LONE MEMORIES
Poster: Eileen Noyes
Caption: Survival
Poster: Al
Caption: She goes home to her remaining family, through her remaining village, to gather her remaining hopes. Why do we not share our hopes with her......?
Poster: JESSICA
Caption: IN THE MIDST OF DESOLATED RUINS A WOMAN SEEKS SANCTUARY FROM THE NEVERENDING DESPAIRS OF LIFE IN AFGHANISTAN
Poster: judy
Caption: I walk this way for I know no other way to go.
Poster: carolann
Caption: A different planet. Is this really our earth or the end of the earth as we know it?!
Poster: Ron S.
Caption: It is not where I have been, nor where I am going. It is to know that as this sun rises, it is surely to go down as well.
Poster: Igor
Caption: Somehow, her state of mind is so well kept peaceful, focused and down to earth; faraway and opposite from the ‘diet-life’ delusions of ‘fast food’ conditioned ‘monsterminds’ of the savages that are waging yet another selfish, and war marked by conflict between petty interests and tremendous ignorance, without regards to other man’s ways and freedoms. Her man may be alive, her kids too, but for how much longer?
She’s just having some walking rest in this no man’s land.
Poster: Allen G.
Caption: From the earth man cometh and so shall he return.
Poster: rich a ray
Caption: at the feet of time
Poster: PatA
Caption: Hope amid desolation
Poster: Pat
Caption: Outward desolation
Inward victory
Poster: BobbieMcGarey
Caption: Woman walks in the day. We see trouble and poverty but perhaps she can see hope ahead. We dare not abandon her. For the world moves on with new troubles. Call her free? Perhaps...I pray so.
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