2007 Photo Contest, Daily Life, 3rd prize
Photographer

Moises Saman

Newsday

01 January, 2004

An Afghan boy covers his eyes as a dust storm sweeps through the city. Five years after the American-led invasion to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan, efforts to reform the judiciary, towards religious freedom, and towards relaxing strictures on women were still underway. Life for most Afghans revolved around rebuilding the war-ravaged state.

About the photographer

Moises Saman

Moises Saman was born in 1974 in Lima, Peru, but spent most of his youth in Barcelona, Spain, after his family moved there. Moises studied communications and sociology in the Uni...

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