Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul by Ron Haviv

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Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul

Photographs by
Ron Haviv

Published by de.MO

160 pages. 80 color photographs. Dimensions 10.75 x 12 inches. $45

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Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul

After September 11, 2001, photographer Ron Haviv embarked on a trip to Afghanistan with writer Ilana Ozernoy. "Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul" is the record of their journey.

Haviv's photographs capture the period from October 2001, through the liberation of the city of Kabul — and on to the fall of the Taliban regime at the end of December 2001. It is a testament of the latest incursion fought in a country which has been ravaged by war for the last 23 years.

Haviv and Ozernoy followed the military and social conflict that took place, documenting the monumental changes that were happening.

The photographs take the viewer from women in veils and men with long beards, to barbers and women on television in Kabul, and from abandoned Taliban posts filled with documents and bomb diagrams, to kids playing next to tanks and flying kites.

There is plenty of disillusionment, sadness and chaos in Haviv's images, but in the end the photographs never fail to depict a sense of hope and beauty.

About Ron Haviv & Ilana Ozernoy

Throughout his career, Ron Haviv has confronted risk in order to bring to people's attention crises, wars and other dangerous events. He has covered anarchy and conflict in the Balkans, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East — as well as fighting in Russia and Afghanistan.

Haviv's work has been published by leading magazines around the world, including Time, Esquire, Paris Match and the New York Times. His photographs have also been exhibited at the United Nations, the Newseum and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ilana Ozernoy is a freelance writer who contributes to U.S. News & World Report, The San Francisco Chronicle and the Boston Globe. She traveled the long road to Kabul with the Northern Alliance to write the essay for "Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul."

Tank tracks mark the ground where Northern Alliance troops advanced on the Old Kabul Road.

A Northern Alliance soldier holds a picture of a dead Taliban killed in the battle for Kabul.

Anti personnel land mines found in an al Qaeda house in Kabul.

A TV anchorwoman broadcasts the news in Kabul. TV and working women were outlawed under the Taliban.

A funeral for a woman killed by an American bomb mistakenly dropped on a Northern Alliance village.

Northern Alliance soldiers play with a globe found in an abandoned Taliban religious school.