KATSUTOSHI YUASA
NENAD SALJIC
LISA ROET
Teru Kuwayama
James Whitlow Delano

The Chasm by Teru Kuwayama

In Store Exhibition
World Square, QV, Doncaster, The Galeries

A projection of images from ten years of travel in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir. I first traveled to Afghanistan in the spring of 2002, and returned a few months later to Pakistan and Kashmir. In the decade that followed, this region became my focus, and I returned, over and over again, throughout the years that Afghanistan was relegated to the status of “The forgotten war”. The photographs reflect the spiral in chaos across disputed borders, and people who have endured cycles of warfare, disaster, and the chronic amnesia of the outside world.

Teru Kuwayama is a photographer from New York. His work over the past decade has focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir. In 2004, while working in Iraq, he designed Lightstalkers, a global, online community of photographers and unconventional travellers. In 2007 he launched the Battlespace project, a traveling exhibition of photographs, presenting an unsanitized, unfiltered view of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a 2009–2010 Knight Fellow at Stanford University, a 2010 TED Global Fellow and a 2010 Ochberg Fellow at the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. He received a 2010 Knight News Challenge Award to launch Basetrack, an online social media project that chronicled the deployment of a US Marine battalion in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011. He is a 2012 TED Senior Fellow.

 

  • Vehicle tracks across the bed of a dried lake near Kabul, 2002. Afghanistan had been stricken with several consecutive years of drought.


    Vehicle tracks across the bed of a dried lake near Kabul, 2002. Afghanistan had been stricken with several consecutive years of drought.

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  • An Afghan man traverses a dried lake bed near Kabul, 2002. Afghanistan had been stricken with several consecutive years of drought.


    An Afghan man traverses a dried lake bed near Kabul, 2002. Afghanistan had been stricken with several consecutive years of drought.

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  • Hazaras in Bamian province in central Afghanistan, 2004. The Hazara are an ethnic and religious minority in Afghanistan, comprising approximately 10% of the population. They are Shia muslims, with Mongolian features, tracing their lineage to the reign of Genghis Khan, and they suffered intense persecution under Taliban rule.


    Hazaras in Bamian province in central Afghanistan, 2004. The Hazara are an ethnic and religious minority in Afghanistan, comprising approximately 10% of the population. They are Shia muslims, with Mongolian features, tracing their lineage to the reign of Genghis Khan, and they suffered intense persecution under Taliban rule.

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  • A building in Kabul bears the scars of internecine fighting between rival Afghan militias, who fought for control of the city after the withdrawal of Soviet forces in the 80s. 2002


    A building in Kabul bears the scars of internecine fighting between rival Afghan militias, who fought for control of the city after the withdrawal of Soviet forces in the 80s. 2002

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  • A family carries their possessions through the mountains of Pakistan administered Kashmir, after a massive earthquake killed 80,000 and displaced 3.5 million survivors in 2005


    A family carries their possessions through the mountains of Pakistan administered Kashmir, after a massive earthquake killed 80,000 and displaced 3.5 million survivors in 2005

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  • An ethnic Kyrgyz nomad makes his way through Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor, a narrow 200 mile valley bordered by China, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. 2005


    An ethnic Kyrgyz nomad makes his way through Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor, a narrow 200 mile valley bordered by China, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. 2005

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  • The mountains of central Afghanistan, seen from the window of an airplane. 2006


    The mountains of central Afghanistan, seen from the window of an airplane. 2006

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  • A crevasse seen near the mouth of the Siachen Glacier, a region claimed by India and Pakistan (and in some parts, China). The Siachen Glacier has distinction of being the world's highest and coldest battlefield on Earth, with the military forces of India and Pakistan engaged in a decade long stalemate on the ice and in the surrounding mountains. 2002


    A crevasse seen near the mouth of the Siachen Glacier, a region claimed by India and Pakistan (and in some parts, China). The Siachen Glacier has distinction of being the world's highest and coldest battlefield on Earth, with the military forces of India and Pakistan engaged in a decade long stalemate on the ice and in the surrounding mountains. 2002

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  • The Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan. 2004


    The Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan. 2004

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  • by Teru Kuwayama


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