AFGHANISTAN 1988 & 2009

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…