AFGHANISTAN "fromtheinside" - Promo

The years 1989 and 2000, saw Peter returned four more times to Afghanistan, documenting the shifting pattern of alliances and to visually record, • The final battles to oust the Communist regime in Kabul. • The civil war which followed the Communist collapse in 1992. • The war's effects on the civilian population. • The rise of the Taliban and the Taliban's capture of most of Afghanistan. Then with the US-led invasion, operational for eight years In 2009 Peter again travelled to an Afghanistan. An Afghanistan that was largely under Taliban control. Tracking down surviving members of the Mujahideen groups, whom Peter knew on his previous journeys. These individuals tell their own stories, stories which give insights into Afghan culture and attitudes, stories which are often tragic and at times humorous. These former Mujahideen, reminisce of shared hardships and risks. They speak candidly of their views, and what they believe the future holds.

Peter first visited Afghanistan in 1988. At 22 years of age, Peter was the youngest journalist to visit Afghanistan; he became a witness to the devastation wrought by the Soviet invasion. Travelling with the Mujahideen, narrowly surviving attacks from Soviet aircraft and tanks, Peter visually recorded combat between Mujahideen and Soviet forces, exclusively interviewing Afghan commanders and soldiers about their roles in the war. When Peter returned to Afghanistan 2009 it was his sixth journey to that war torn country. It was also the first time he had been to the capital Kabul. He carried with him a folder containing many 8x10 colour and black & white photographs, a photographic record that went back to 1988, the first year Peter visited that country. He now returned to search out the men he befriended across those destructive years, Afghan freedom fighters members of the mujahedeen fighting the Russia army, and then Northern Alliance troops fighting the Taliban, as a photojournalist Peter travelled with some of these groups into the most inhospitable country on earth…

University sucked, except for the cadets, all my friends going off to be doctors or solicitors. I wanted more from life, it was 1988, I had no money, and what can I do about the itch….. Going on Sale of the Century with Tony Barber spinning all hyper onto the set was not what I really expected that I would be doing, but it did get me a grand and that was my ticket to the latest warzone Afghanistan…. “from the inside” The Heart of Afghanistan One man’s obsessive interest. Documenting _ Unfolding events _ Across Decades. A country torn apart……Torn apart by War……continuous WAR This man’s observation, witnessing, documenting, the destruction of a country, its people, against the odds, resilient through the devastation, hardened by the tracks of war, fighting the many enemies who wish to control their homeland through religion, indoctrination and oppression. A story told by the people, witnessed through the lens. AFGHANISTAN "from the inside"...