AUTHOR Simon Urwin
ALI SHAH FARHANG, LE CHAMPION AFGHAN DES PISTES DE SKI
D’une beauté frappante, digne d’une star de cinéma, Ali Shah Farhang arrive sur sa moto et nous nous asseyons pour bavarder au bord des ruines d’un ancien hôtel, non loin des niches du 6ème siècle qui abritaient les immenses bouddhas que les talibans ont dynamités en 2001.
Sri Lanka : Lady Di & le mineur
Auteur: Simon Urwin | @SimonUrwinPhoto Amaranth se déshabille jusqu’à la taille pour une journée de fouilles à la carrière. Il est naturellement sculpté et musclé comme un athlète. Dans une ‘Bataille de […]
The Afghan Athletes & the Ski slope Champion
By Simon Urwin The veins in his arms are as thick as mooring rope, his inflated bulk pumped with more artificial protein than a flock of factory chickens. Somehow he has […]
Tile Giant
By Simon Urwin “Working with ceramics every day is like a form of worship for me, it helps me feel closer to Allah,” Omid announces proudly. This is not the kind […]
Afghanistan: a burqa for Barbie
The burqa has been ‘on trend’ here for hundreds of years. Like the local equivalent of a Hermès scarf or a Louboutin red heel, it first became popular as a status symbol, with the impractical billowing folds of the upturned shuttlecock clearly signalling that the wearer was a wealthier Metropolitan woman who’d never be seen dead working in the fields like her poorer Afghan sisters.
