Remembering photojournalist killed in Kabul explosion

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7 years ago

Shah Marai, the chief photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP) in Kabul, was killed in a bombing in the Afghan capital. Here we present a small selection of his work documenting his homeland.

Marai regularly photographed the site of suicide bombings. Here, residents inspect one outside a voter registration centre on 22 April this year

An Afghan man digs a grave for one of the victims of a suicide attack this year that killed nearly 60 people including children

Two Afghan women weep for their relatives at a hospital following explosions at a cultural centre in Kabul in 2017

Marai also covered political events in the country. Here then Afghan President Hamid Karzai and US Senator John Kerry were pictured laughing during a press conference at the presidential palace in Kabul in 2009

Ten years ago, Marai was at Camp Bastion in Helmand when then British PM Gordon Brown addressed British soldiers

In 2009 Marai photographed a supporter of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah caught in a beam of light as she made her way to a campaign event

Marai also documented daily life and some of the more positive events in the country. Here a child is given the polio vaccine during a countrywide immunisation campaign in 2010

After years of being cloistered in their homes during Taliban rule, in 2008 Afghan women were pictured by Marai as they attended a gym in Herat

Afghans on a fairground ride at the Park Shahar or City Park, in Kabul

This picture by Marai from 2017 shows some of the thousands of films hidden from the Taliban in the mid-1990s that are now being digitised

An Afghan man walks along a path under snow-laden trees in Kabul

In the early 2000s, Afghanistan’s roads and valleys were littered with the debris of war, mostly Soviet vehicles destroyed by Mujaheedin fighters during the 1979-1989 period of occupation. Here Marai photographed children playing on an abandoned Soviet tank in the Panjshir valley

This girl was one of more than 6,000 refugees returning to Afghanistan from Iran in 2008

Photo courtesy: AFP

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