“It was as if the Taliban were still there”
Photographer Jassem Ghazbanpour was in Kabul when the Taliban fled. What he saw twenty years ago feels, today, like an eerie premonition.
All photos by Jassem Ghazbanpour, Kabul, 2002. Some twenty years ago, during days not unlike now, the Taliban were finally defeated in Afghanistan and retreated from Kabul. Back then my job was still mostly photo journalism and just a week after the Taliban’s retreat I found myself in the Afghan capital city with a contingent of journalists from Iran.
