'They are so defiant and so strong': Photojournalist paulaphoto on documenting women and girls in Afghanistan
Photographs by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images were made possible with support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Bronstein spoke to Yahoo News about what it was like evacuating from Kabul and about her experience documenting Afghanistan over the past 20 years. The following interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity.PAULA BRONSTEIN: The airport was normal when I left. When I was in flight, the president left the country and as soon as the president left the country, chaos ensued. I left before President Ghani flew away. The Taliban were sitting outside the city [and] they were not entering.
I'm talking to [Afghans] in real time on WhatsApp. I’m telling them to be patient, but that’s what I’m hearing. [The U.S. government] has to do this. This is not a ‘we’re going to try to come up with a plan for a safe passage.’ It's mandatory. We all know they can. They can fly Chinooks from the U.S. Embassy grounds, which are vacant now, straight to the airport. But it's all after the fact. It should have been part of the original plan when 5,000 troops went in, now 6,000.
How many times have you been to the country? Was the condition of women and girls always the main focus of your photojournalism? “Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear” shows women and girls under Taliban rule, violence brought on by war, as well as self-inflicted violence. What did you hope to inspire through your reporting?
Displaced Afghans from the northern provinces are evacuated from a makeshift IDP camp in Share-e-Naw Park to various mosques and schools in Kabul, Aug. 12, 2021. People displaced by the advancing Taliban flooding into Kabul capital to escape the takeover of their provinces. Ten-year-old Switan looks into the window of the Herat restaurant while begging for food in Kabul. She stares at foreigners in the hopes of getting their leftovers. Switan collects between 50,000 Afghani to 70,000 Afghani per day, about $2.50 U.S. dollars, from begging. January 13, 2002. A mother and her two children at their cave dwelling, Feb. 23, 2002. About 60 families live in caves that are adjacent to the destroyed ancient Buddha statues in Bamiyan.
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