In Pictures

In pictures: Afghanistan’s star photographers

Overcoming war and repression, the nation’s photojournalists are showing their world through an Afghan lens.

Children playing in the rubble of war-ravaged buildings.

Afghan photojournalists are winning plaudits, praise and awards for their work to keep the world’s focus on the people of their nation.

Massoud Hossaini won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2012; Farzana Wahidy turns her lens on the challenges Afghan women face; Fardin Waezi is a United Nations photographer who began his career at age seven and Barat Ali Batoor is a self-taught photographer who grew up as an Afghan refugee in Quetta, Pakistan.

In this gallery, they each offer a glimpse through their viewfinder at the developing scene in Afghanistan.

The floating silhouette of the burka worn by Afghan women becomes translucent in the bright sunshine.

Women in Jawzjan Province work as carpet weavers to support their families.

Afghan women in their home yard in Bamiyan Province.

An Afghan woman in Parwan prison, convicted of adultery. Wishing to remain anonymous, she says she was raped by a man in her neighborhood, and gave birth to her child in prison.

Singer Elaha Sorur in her room in Kabul. She was one of the finalists in the Afghan hit television series, "Afghan Idol".

A boy dancing at a party in Kabul. The underground world of bacha bazi was notorious, yet hidden, during the Taliban(***)s rule.

Sohrab works at a Kabul bus station to earn a living for his family.