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Staramasce an Afghan Greeting 30 images Created 31 Oct 2008

DIALOGUE OF CULTURES: AFGHANISTAN AND THE WORLD A Photographic Exhibition by award-winning Gabriele Torsello 'TEMPORARY WORK FOR AFGHANS'

Kidnapped and held hostage in Afghanistan last October, London-based Italian photojournalist Gabriele 'Kash' Torsello returns to the public arena with an outstanding exhibition of images from Afghanistan.

Being launched at the Foreign Press Association in London on Tuesday 12 June, the exhibition-talk will illustrate Kash's ongoing project, 'Temporary Work for Afghans'; a project focused on the implementation of UNDERSTANDING between Cultures, which explores the structure for an open-ended Dialogue towards collaboration & peace.

Over the years 'Kash' has compassionately chronicled the life of Kashmiris and Afghans -- their pain, their hopes and their vibrancy -- bringing their plight to the notice of the world. During this time he has made his own personal journey, embracing the Cultures and accepting Islam.

He was rewarded in November 2006 by his fellow international journalists with the FPA's Premier Award, the 'Dialogue of Cultures'. Speaking at the ceremony award, Kash said:

"Kidnapping was a traumatic experience which left me with no ambition to continue my work. The FPA Award has triggered an emotional renaissance inspiring me to renew my efforts".

This exhibition takes its name from the Afghan greeting "STARAMASCE". The photographs show life across Afghanistan, capturing the glances, gestures and emotions with which we can all empathise but from a world and a people seemingly not of our own. The exhibition starts a wider process for 'Kash' of helping Europeans bridge the cultural divide and to enter an 'Understanding' process with a people who lead extraordinary lives as they determinedly struggle "to rebuild a united country for themselves and their generations which leads to peace and prosperity in South-Asia and around."
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  • KABUL 06 August 2005.Shabana poiting her finger to the camera...Shabana, a nine-months old Afghan girl, was originally diagnosed with 'Leishmaniasis' a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies; then with 'Hemangioma' a tumor made-up of dilated blood vessels that usually appears shortly after birth; and finally with 'Neurofibroma' a tumor or growth located along a nerve or nervous tissue
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  • Khost, 20 August 2005.Portrait of Afghan man wearing a black turban
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  • A military post at the entrance/end of the Khyper Pass, about 10 miles form Peshawar.."Foreigners Are Not Allowed Beyond This Point (towards Afghanistan) Unless Specially Permitted By The Political Agent Khyber Agency. By order political agent"
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  • Young Afghans learning Tae Kwon Do at a military camp in the suburbs of Kabul
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  • KABUL, 17 JULY 2005..A smashed car window displaying the picture of  Gen Ahmad Shah Massoud , known as the Lion of Panjshir for his success in fighting the Soviet, and the remainings of USA sticker. .In Afghanistan most of the car window are broken due to bad road conditions.
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  • KABUL 24 August 2005.A disable athlete plays football while holding himself on a crutch...On 23-25 August 2005, Special Olympics Afghanistan held its first national Games at Olympic Stadium in Kabul. .More than 300 athletes, including 80 female athletes, experienced a taste of happiness and achievement for the first time in their lives. They competed in athletics, bocce and football (soccer). Because of cultural restrictions, males and females competed at separate venues..
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  • MUSULMAN .PLACE OF WORSHIP.FAIZABAD, 27 July 2005.KOKCHA RIVER.A new bridge is under construction, .Muslims are performing 'Salat'
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  • Kabul, 14 August 2005..In a local gun's shop, a Pakistani proudly show his ring..
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  • KABUL 25 August 2005.Women watching the Sport event at Ghazi Stadium..On 23-25 August 2005, Special Olympics Afghanistan held its first national Games at Olympic Stadium in Kabul. More than 300 athletes, including 80 female athletes, experienced a taste of happiness and achievement for the first time in their lives. They competed in athletics, bocce and football (soccer). Because of cultural restrictions, males and females competed at separate venues.
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  • On the road to Kandahar a passeger's bus, loaded with a car and a trak on its roof, travel towards Kabul.
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  • Salah is a pillar of DIN
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  • A very common road-sign around Khost remind the collaboration between Afghan & USA
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  • Afghan students look at a picture of a woman displayed in a photographic book on Kashmir
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  • Traveling from Kabul to Khost on a 'Corolla', a taxi shared with 4 other passengers - plus the driver. Camels enrich the beauty of the stony road.
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  • Maiwand Hospital, Plastic Surgery Unit. .A mother and her child born with a cleft palateat
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  • BADAKHSHAN, 30 July 2005.According to United Nation Population Fund, Afghanistan has among the world?s highest rates of maternal mortality, and Badakhshan has the highest rates ever recorded anywhere in the world, with one mother dying in every 15 births.
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  • Afghanistan, 24 July 2005.American soldiers patrolling the streets of Kabul.
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  • YAFTAL PAYAN, 31 July 2005.German soldiers/ISAF having some food at Bitha Bala's guest house..They came here to meet the head of the village who, apparently, is not there..Ralph - on the left - says that their duty is to look at the life conditions of the villagers and to report it to the reconstruction team. ."The aim is to cooordinate the work of all NGOs operating in Afghanistan" he adds.
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  • A yellow taxi is parked off road,  an elderly man carries a tank of water on his back.
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  • A dusty afternoon. In rhe backgrong a five-floor building under construction
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  • A young boy sits near the Kokcha River
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  • KABUL, an Afghan reading a book on Islam at a local bookshop in Jada.
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  • View from the usual smashed window of an Afgan Taxicab
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