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Archive for August, 2007

EXPO NIPPON

Pul Charki prison, Afghanistan. © Anne Holmes
Hello. I am back from Afghanistan and in the process of putting together my exhibition for Japan. I will be showing photographs from Iran and Afghanistan, and displaying a series of paintings from last year as well. You can have a look at some of the new work by [...]


Korean Hostages to be Freed

It looks as though the Korean hostages may be freed today after a breakthrough in talks occurred yesterday between Taliban and South Korean officials. A five-point deal was struck, wherein namely the Koreans agreed to pull their troops out of the country by the end of the year and agreed not to send any more [...]


Korean Hostage Crisis

I had dinner with a friend who has been covering the news here for three years. He had just come back from a story up north, and spent the last few days deep in the Korean hostage crisis. There is an added tension in some regard for those of us here working in Afghanistan because [...]