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		<description><![CDATA[[italiano più sotto] a reportage of Antonio Amendola #caboolexpress &#8220;fracture is the separation of an object or material into two,..]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!--:it--><strong><span style="color: #800000;">[italiano più sotto]</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #888888;">a reportage of <span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3366ff;">Antonio Amendola</span></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com/wordpress/?page_id=1392" target="_blank">#caboolexpress</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;fracture is the separation of an object or material </em><br />
<em>into two, or more, pieces under the action of stress</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>A discontinuity that may have a large influence on </em><br />
<em>the mechanical behavior (strength, deformation, etc.) </em><br />
<em>of soil and rock masses&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<div id="attachment_8583" style="width: 218px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone"><img class=" wp-image-8583 " title="combokabul1" src="https://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3871/combokabul1347x1024.jpg" alt="" width="208" height="614" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(click to see the photogallery)</p></div>
<p>There are areas of the World, and moments of History, which are real fracture zones.</p>
<p>Afghanistan is one of those.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It&#8217;s a place where a huge fracture (which has lasted for centuries) is followed by an incredible  human resistance.</p>
<p>Crumbs of human resistance, sparkles of Life even in the darkest territories and moments. Crumbs that become boulders that roll, thanks to storytelling and become an avalanche of humanity.</p>
<p>It takes courage to live on a Fracture Zone.</p>
<p>These are some of those extraordinary individuals who live and struggle to reshape the future of their Country.</p>
<p>Those who are champions of Women right, creating the first shelter for women vicitms of domestic violence and those who give them free legal support;</p>
<p>those who demine their own Country in order to protect their children from loosing their legs while playing football in the street;</p>
<p>those who struggle to keep operative and efficient provincial Hospital and give free health assistance;</p>
<p>those who teach young girls, giving them a better future trough education; and those who protect those schools;</p>
<p>those who join the Afghan National Army to defend their own Country; and those who teach them how to read and write first&#8230;</p>
<p>Those who care about their Country.</p>
<p><strong>Antonio Amendola/S4C </strong></p>
<p><em>[Thank You to ISAF and US Embassy in Rome, in Kabul and at NATO to facilitate this Project</em><br />
<em>A big thanks to all personnel at F.O.B. Farah and F.O.B. Shield for making this possible, securing my visits, interviews, photos, etc. ]</em></p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Linea di faglia: Afghanistan. I volti degli Afghani che stanno cambiando il proprio Paese</strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>(di <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Antonio Amendola</span></a></span>/S4C)</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"> Ci sono luoghi e momenti della Storia che rappresentano delle linee di faglia, delle zone di rottura: umana, sociale, economica.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">L’Afghanistan per gran parte della sua storia è stato uno di questi.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com/wordpress/?page_id=123" target="_blank">Sono stato recentemente in Afghanistan</a></span>, con l&#8217;ISAF, e ho  avviato un progetto fotografico che racconta i personaggi che vivono lungo queste linee di rottura. A cominciare dagli afghani che, lentamente, stanno ricostruendo il futuro del proprio Paese.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_8590" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8590 " title="AMA_5633" src="https://img31.imageshack.us/img31/9250/ama5633.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="401" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Ho cercato di scoprire e raccontare delle storie positive. L’Afghanistan è un Paese in guerra. E come tutte le guerre, anche questa è sporca.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Ma è importante rintracciare le briciole di resistenza umana. Che grazie al racconto ed all’effetto moltiplicatore dell’esempio,  sono macigni che, rotolando grazie a quanti li raccontano, diventano valanghe di umanità.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Da Mary Akrami, attivista per i diritti delle donne e fondatrice del primo rifugio per donne vittime di violenze, a Freshna Karimi che fornisce assistenza legale gratuita alle donne che decidono di sovvertire logiche culturali che comprimono i propri diritti.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_8587" style="width: 291px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8587  " title="20june12_maryakrami_caboolexpress_043-Modifica" src="https://img31.imageshack.us/img31/7568/20june12maryakramicaboo.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="420" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Storie di chi (grazie anche alla maggiore sicurezza garantita dal contingente ISAF nella Provincia) insegna in una scuola per bambine nella provincia di Ghor, convincendo le famiglie che una ragazza istruita non è una ragazza ‘<em>senza valore di mercato</em>’; o di chi si addestra per sminare i tanti campi che, ancora oggi, mietono tante vittime innocenti.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_8584" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8584 " title="17June_caboolexpress_089-Modifica" src="https://img52.imageshack.us/img52/3713/17junecaboolexpress089m.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="552" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Ma anche storie di giovani soldati afghani che, arruolandosi, chiedono di poter difendere in prima persona il proprio Paese (e pochi sanno che il maggior numero di vittime si riscontra proprio tra i militari afghani) lasciandosi alle spalle situazioni di analfabetismo, povertà, sudditanza culturale nei confronti dei talebani.</span></p>
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<div id="attachment_8588" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8588 " title="AMA_5530" src="https://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2944/ama5530.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="401" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
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<p> <span style="color: #800000;">Un progetto a lungo termine , il cui prossimo obiettivo sarà quello di raccontare la storia degli ‘insorti’ che accettano la resa e vengono reintegrati nel fragile tessuto sociale afghano</span>.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com" target="_blank">Antonio Amendola</a>/S4C</p>
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<div id="attachment_8585" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8585  " title="17June_caboolexpress_139-Modifica" src="https://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5700/17junecaboolexpress139m.jpg" alt="" width="630" height="421" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
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<p><a href="http://youtu.be/5FLVsjtYdGw">http://youtu.be/5FLVsjtYdGw</a><!--:--><!--:en--><strong><span style="color: #800000;">[italiano più sotto]</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com/wordpress/?page_id=1392" target="_blank">#caboolexpress</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;fracture is the separation of an object or material </em><br />
<em>into two, or more, pieces under the action of stress</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>A discontinuity that may have a large influence on </em><br />
<em>the mechanical behavior (strength, deformation, etc.) </em><br />
<em>of soil and rock masses&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<div id="attachment_8583" style="width: 218px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone"><img class=" wp-image-8583 " title="combokabul1" src="https://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3871/combokabul1347x1024.jpg" alt="" width="208" height="614" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(click to see the photogallery)</p></div>
<p>There are areas of the World, and moments of History, which are real fracture zones.</p>
<p>Afghanistan is one of those.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">It&#8217;s a place where a huge fracture (which has lasted for centuries) is followed by an incredible  human resistance.</p>
<p>Crumbs of human resistance, sparkles of Life even in the darkest territories and moments. Crumbs that become boulders that roll, thanks to storytelling and become an avalanche of humanity.</p>
<p>It takes courage to live on a Fracture Zone.</p>
<p>These are some of those extraordinary individuals who live and struggle to reshape the future of their Country.</p>
<p>Those who are champions of Women right, creating the first shelter for women vicitms of domestic violence and those who give them free legal support;</p>
<p>those who demine their own Country in order to protect their children from loosing their legs while playing football in the street;</p>
<p>those who struggle to keep operative and efficient provincial Hospital and give free health assistance;</p>
<p>those who teach young girls, giving them a better future trough education; and those who protect those schools;</p>
<p>those who join the Afghan National Army to defend their own Country; and those who teach them how to read and write first&#8230;</p>
<p>Those who care about their Country.</p>
<p><strong>Antonio Amendola/S4C </strong></p>
<p><em>[Thank You to ISAF and US Embassy in Rome, in Kabul and at NATO to facilitate this Project</em><br />
<em>A big thanks to all personnel at F.O.B. Farah and F.O.B. Shield for making this possible, securing my visits, interviews, photos, etc. ]</em></p>
<p><em></em> </p>
<h2><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Linea di faglia: Afghanistan. I volti degli Afghani che stanno cambiando il proprio Paese</strong></span></h2>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>(di <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Antonio Amendola</span></a></span>/S4C)</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"> Ci sono luoghi e momenti della Storia che rappresentano delle linee di faglia, delle zone di rottura: umana, sociale, economica.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">L’Afghanistan per gran parte della sua storia è stato uno di questi.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com/wordpress/?page_id=123" target="_blank">Sono stato recentemente in Afghanistan</a></span>, con l&#8217;ISAF, e ho  avviato un progetto fotografico che racconta i personaggi che vivono lungo queste linee di rottura. A cominciare dagli afghani che, lentamente, stanno ricostruendo il futuro del proprio Paese.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_8590" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8590 " title="AMA_5633" src="https://img31.imageshack.us/img31/9250/ama5633.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="401" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Ho cercato di scoprire e raccontare delle storie positive. L’Afghanistan è un Paese in guerra. E come tutte le guerre, anche questa è sporca.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Ma è importante rintracciare le briciole di resistenza umana. Che grazie al racconto ed all’effetto moltiplicatore dell’esempio,  sono macigni che, rotolando grazie a quanti li raccontano, diventano valanghe di umanità.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Da Mary Akrami, attivista per i diritti delle donne e fondatrice del primo rifugio per donne vittime di violenze, a Freshna Karimi che fornisce assistenza legale gratuita alle donne che decidono di sovvertire logiche culturali che comprimono i propri diritti.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_8587" style="width: 291px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8587  " title="20june12_maryakrami_caboolexpress_043-Modifica" src="https://img31.imageshack.us/img31/7568/20june12maryakramicaboo.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="420" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Storie di chi (grazie anche alla maggiore sicurezza garantita dal contingente ISAF nella Provincia) insegna in una scuola per bambine nella provincia di Ghor, convincendo le famiglie che una ragazza istruita non è una ragazza ‘<em>senza valore di mercato</em>’; o di chi si addestra per sminare i tanti campi che, ancora oggi, mietono tante vittime innocenti.</span></p>
<div id="attachment_8584" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8584 " title="17June_caboolexpress_089-Modifica" src="https://img52.imageshack.us/img52/3713/17junecaboolexpress089m.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="552" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
<p><span style="color: #800000;">Ma anche storie di giovani soldati afghani che, arruolandosi, chiedono di poter difendere in prima persona il proprio Paese (e pochi sanno che il maggior numero di vittime si riscontra proprio tra i militari afghani) lasciandosi alle spalle situazioni di analfabetismo, povertà, sudditanza culturale nei confronti dei talebani.</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<div id="attachment_8588" style="width: 610px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8588 " title="AMA_5530" src="https://img59.imageshack.us/img59/2944/ama5530.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="401" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p> <span style="color: #800000;">Un progetto a lungo termine , il cui prossimo obiettivo sarà quello di raccontare la storia degli ‘insorti’ che accettano la resa e vengono reintegrati nel fragile tessuto sociale afghano</span>.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.antonioamendola.com" target="_blank">Antonio Amendola</a>/S4C</p>
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<div id="attachment_8585" style="width: 710px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/fracturezone" target="_blank"><img class=" wp-image-8585 " title="17June_caboolexpress_139-Modifica" src="https://img266.imageshack.us/img266/5700/17junecaboolexpress139m.jpg" alt="" width="700" height="468" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(cliccare per la galleria fotografica)</p></div>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/REYNOL_Forbidden_Faces_3-Copia.jpg"></a>Forbidden Faces. Afghanistan&#8217;s Untold Stories (by Beb Reynol) <span style="color: #800000;">[in italiano più sotto]</span></h2>
<p>This project explores the aftermath of Talibanization on the Pashtun culture in the borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan and the cost of censorship. Forbidden Faces is a photo essay that approaches remote Pashtun communities and captures out-of-the-ordinary faces to reveal their untold stories. <span style="color: #000080;"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/forbiddenfaces/" target="_blank"><strong>(click to see the flash gallery)</strong></a></span></p>
<p>Since 1999, <a href="http://www.deltageographic.com/forbidden.html" target="_blank">Beb Reynol</a> (S4C member)  has walked across the border that separates Afghanistan from Pakistan. Out on the open, in front of a staged backdrop, local Pashtuns are being photographed, their personal stories recorded, stirring an uneasy social behavior among loyal Taliban followers who have so far put a dark shadow over democracy and the freedom of expression in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The photo essay closely examines the predominant Afghan Pashtun in its own romantic culture, revealing a hidden passion for poetry and music , a cultural and social fabric from which centuries of stories were told and passed on.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/REYNOL_Forbidden_Faces_1-Copia.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3412" title="Brick worker - Kabul, Afghanistan" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/REYNOL_Forbidden_Faces_1-Copia-819x1024.jpg" alt="" width="573" height="717" /></a></p>
<h4 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/forbiddenfaces/" target="_blank"><strong>(click to see the flash gallery)</strong></a></h4>
<h4>The project</h4>
<p>Beb Reynol&#8217;s work retraces a parallel underground movement, which, at the height of the Taliban regime, led numbers of Taliban fighters, themselves Pashtuns, to secretly pose for intimate and revealing photography portraits. Men posed holding hands together, or next to a bird, a flower or a radio: vital elements of their cultural and individual identity that were banned for &#8220;non-Islamic&#8221; influences.</p>
<p>Censorship has taken many forms in remote and rural areas. The influence of the Taliban inside Pashrun communities has deeply traumatized people. While in a mission in Kandahar, in Afghanistan, many Pashtuns I tried to photograph were hesitant to be approached; they often looked into the crowd for a positive sign, a general approval.</p>
<p>Piles of negatives of such portraits were found in various locations of the city when the photography shops re-opened one by one after the fall of the regime in 2001, revealing a trend, which hundreds of Taliban loyalists joined in. The desire to be distinguished from a fundamental Talibanization forced hundreds to ignore the ban to express themselves by any means possible, despite their limited communicating skills. The portraits gave them a voice and a channel to communicate their identity while expressing their lack of freedom.</p>
<p>Media coverage of the war on terror in Afghanistan revealed very little about the impact of the Talibanization across the region. The Taliban&#8217;s control over the Pashtun communities in tribal regions of Afghanistan has accelerated the decline of an ancient and complex culture. While this project breaks many taboos, I am hoping it will sensitize our western views on a population often marginalized for political agenda, a change very much needed to shatter stereotypes prior implementing peaceful solutions into the regions.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/REYNOL_Forbidden_Faces_2-Copia.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3415" title="Brick worker - Kabul, Afghanistan" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/REYNOL_Forbidden_Faces_2-Copia-806x1024.jpg" alt="" width="564" height="717" /></a></p>
<p><strong>The portraits</strong></p>
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<p>The landscape is removed and replaced with a curtain backdrop. The absence of landscape that defines the outlines of their identity transfuses a series of exclusive frames which expose an intimate window to the Pashtuns. The portraits become objective, result of interpretation or perhaps true to the subjects. A rare look into the enemy&#8217;s eyes, communicating the voice of ordinary people. The photographs put us face to face with a community that often lies beneath the Taliban&#8217;s label.</p>
<p>Beb&#8217;s approach is to explore an identity that may best represents the Pashtun.</p>
<p>The Pashtuns have remained the center of upcoming elections and armed conflicts in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Recently, American officials and the Afghan government have entered unprecedented negotiations with the Taliban leadership, to end the war. The questions about the Pashtuns have taken a crucial significance for the world.</p>
<p>Beb&#8217;s goal is to document the Pashtun communities in remote and rural areas where illiteracy prevails, trying to bring their various human strength and frailties to the forefront while focusing in every aspect of the Pashtun social and religious structure.</p>
<p>Beb also wants to create a dignifying portrait of Pashtu individuals in Pakistan and Afghanistan who, because of their ethnic status, are victims of circumstances. He wants to record the voice and stories of those who have been silenced due to the rise of fanatical religious elements.</p>
<p>Read more on <a href="http://www.deltageographic.com/forbidden.html" target="_blank">Beb Reynol</a> website. He&#8217;s a great photographer and a great S4C member!</p>
<p><em>Antonio Amendola</em></p>
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<h2>VOLTI PROIBITI: storie nascoste dall’Afghanistan (di Beb Reynol/S4C)</h2>
<p> E&#8217; un bellissimo progetto quello che presentiamo oggi. Il fotografo S4C <a href="http://www.deltageographic.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;">Beb Reynol</span></a>, membro di Shoot4Change,  esplora, infatti, attraverso una serie di ritratti straordinari, le conseguenze della talebanizzazione sulla cultura Pashtun nelle terre di confine tra Afghanistan e Pakistan ed il costo della censura e del fanatismo religioso. <a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/forbiddenfaces/" target="_blank"><strong>(click to see the flash gallery)</strong></a></p>
<p>“<em><a href="http://www.deltageographic.com/forbidden.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Forbidden Faces</span></a></em>” è un progetto fotografico sviluppato in remote comunità Pashtun ed incentrato su volti straordinari che rivelano storie nascoste.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/REYNOL_Forbidden_Faces_3-Copia1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3418" title="Brick worker - Kabul, Afghanistan" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/REYNOL_Forbidden_Faces_3-Copia1-814x1024.jpg" alt="" width="570" height="717" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/forbiddenfaces/" target="_blank"><strong>(click to see the flash gallery)</strong></a></p>
<p>Beb Reynol frequenta le zone di confine tra Afghantistan e Pakistan sin dal 1999, raccogliendo un gran numero di ritratti di pashtun locali, realizzati all’aperto, davanti ad un telo (decontestualizzandoli per rafforzarne la storia individuale) e registrando le loro storie personali che evidenziano un comportamento sociale a disagio tra leali seguaci talebani, che hanno finora messo un&#8217;ombra oscura sulla democrazia, e la libertà di espressione in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>I volti ritratti (di cui questi sono solo una piccola selezione) lasciano intravedere la cultura Pasthun, e la nascosta  passione per la poesia e la musica; un tessuto culturale e sociale  nel quale sono nate e tramandate tante storie.</p>
<p>Il progetto di Beb è intrigante. Segue le tracce di un movimento nascosto che al culmine del regime Talebano portò un gran numero di combattenti Talebani (anch’essi Pashtun) a posare per ritratti fotografici intimi e rivelatori. Uomini che si tengono per mano, o accanto ad un uccello, un fiore o una radio: elementi vitali della loro cultura ed identità indivuali che erano stati negati e vietati dal regime.</p>
<p>La censura (che assunse diverse forme nelle aree rurali dell’Afghanistan)  e l’influenza talebana ha traumatizzato profondamente le comunità Pashtun. Durante un suo soggiorno a Kandahar, Beb ha notato che  molti di loro erano contrari a farsi ritrarre in foto e cercavano l’approvazione della folla che li circondava, a sostegno del loro istinto a volersi, invece, far fotografare.</p>
<p>A seguito della caduta del regime, sono stati ritrovati innumerevoli negativi (in giro per Kandahar) nei retrobottega dei negozi che venivano, man mano, riaperti; segno rivelatore del desiderio di distinguersi dalla talebanizzazione imposta. Il ritratto fotografico era quindi un modo di dar voce e comunicare la loro identità culturale, sottolineando – allo stesso tempo – il limite alla possibilità di espressione.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/REYNOL_Forbidden_Faces_4-Copia.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-3419" title="Brick worker - Kabul, Afghanistan" src="https://www.shoot4change.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/REYNOL_Forbidden_Faces_4-Copia-816x1024.jpg" alt="" width="571" height="717" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.s4c.it/slides/forbiddenfaces/" target="_blank"><strong>(click to see the flash gallery)</strong></a></p>
<p>Beb  rilancia, con questo progetto, il desiderio dei Pashtun di mantenere viva la loro cultura e la loro dignità, per tanti anni repressa a causa del fanatismo religioso.</p>
<p>Ha quindi realizzato una serie di ritratti (in cui il velo sullo sfondo decontestualizza la persona, concentrando lo sguardo sul suo volto) il cui obiettivo è ridare voce a storie dimenticate ed ignorate.</p>
<p>E&#8217; un grande fotografo, Beb, ed un fantastico membro di Shoot 4 Change. Leggete di più sul suo sito: <a href="http://www.deltageographic.com">www.deltageographic.com</a></p>
<p>Antonio Amendola</p>
<p>Per maggiori informazioni: <a href="http://www.deltageographic.com/">www.deltageographic.com</a></p>
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