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The women who stand to lose everything in Afghanistan

Anne Chaon Wednesday 11 August 2021

"To see her so shaken brought tears to my eyes. I started crying for the first time during an interview. It never happened before in my career, even in the worst situations. Behind the video camera, my colleague Justine stopped filming. Photographer Adek put down her camera. The despair of Rada had taken hold of the room and gave shape to those of Afghan women," writes Anne Chaon, recently returned from Afghanistan, where she met women fearing for the freedoms won over 20 years, or even their lives, as the Taliban gains ground every day. 

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After the inferno

Josh Edelson Tuesday 10 August 2021

"I’ve been photographing wildfires for years and I have to say, the Dixie fire is a beast," says photographer Josh Edelson, who witnessed first-hand the destruction of Greenville, California and produced an innovative set of 'before and after' shots that powerfully capture the destruction visited upon the town.

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Mad dogs and Welsh children

Rachel O'Brien Thursday 5 August 2021

With vaccines on the mind of the whole world, AFP's deputy global video editor Rachel O'Brien delves into the archives of a family legend for an extraordinary tale of childhood bravery and medical innovation -- and realises how lucky we are now.  

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The women photographers series: Angela Weiss

Angela Weiss Saturday 31 July 2021

“I grew up in a tiny village in Germany, and from early on in my childhood, I was fascinated by books that featured the "pictures of the year." I worked in a bookstore when I was a teenager, and used my salary to buy those books. But nothing really preordained a career in photography for me", says Angela Weiss staff photographer based in New York. 

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Asking the right questions in Haiti

Amélie Baron Saturday 24 July 2021

These days, my phone rings off the hook. “Why was Jovenel Moise assassinated?” they all ask in the wake of the brutal slaying of Haiti’s president at his home in Port-au-Prince in the early hours of July 7.  “Why” – I often tell foreigners freshly arrived in Haiti to ban that word from their vocabularies. Then, inevitably, they would ask me why they should do that.

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