A group of village men in pakols and shawls posed on a hillside

Original Photography

The Nuristan gallery

Every photograph here was taken in and around the province by our own team, family and friends. No stock imagery: this is Nuristan as the people who live there see it.

Abdulrahman Chonish crouched on rocks beside a turquoise lake ringed by mountains — Abdulrahman at a turquoise mountain lake

Abdulrahman Chonish sitting on rocks with his feet in a turquoise river, a hillside village behind — Cooling off in the river

Abdulrahman Chonish talking with a white-bearded elder in a stone-walled village lane — Abdulrahman meets a village elder

Abdulrahman Chonish and an elder drinking green tea in the shade of a tree on river sand — Green tea in the riverside shade

Men seated in a circle on rugs under a canvas shelter, talking over tea — In discussion with the elders

Abdulrahman Chonish handing packaged clothes to boys lined up on a veranda — Distributing clothes to children at a mosque

Children seated on the floor of a village classroom with school bags — A village classroom

A fisherman on a stony riverbank in Mandol holding up a string of fish — The day's catch in Mandol

Two men beside a blackened pot over an open wood fire, village slopes behind — Cooking over an open fire in Waygal

A young man holding a toddler, surrounded by village children — Village children

A group of village men in pakols and shawls posed on a hillside — Elders gather on the hillside

A man walking hand in hand with a white-bearded elder on a hillside path — Obaid with village elders

A large group of men talking on a terrace below a cliff — A gathering outside a timber house

A man in a blue kameez drawing a long wooden bow as others watch — Practising with the long wooden bow

A large circle of men seated and standing at an outdoor village council — A village jirga

An elder with a staff seated in front of pine-forested slopes — An elder in the high valleys

A young Nuristani man in a traditional scarf, the mountains behind him — A young man of the valleys

A Nuristani elder in a pakol, the forested mountains behind him — An elder in a pakol

A Nuristani elder and child looking out from their home — An elder and child at the window

A young Nuristani man in a pakol beside a mountain river — By the river

A bearded Nuristani man in a pakol and utility vest in the mountains — In the mountains

A Nuristani elder seated on a wooden charpai above a mountain valley — On the veranda

Obaid Nuristani seated on a boulder below a rock mountainside — Obaid in the mountains

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