UVM Grad Showcases Images Of War In Afghanistan

Vermont Public | By Peter Biello

Published May 15, 2014 at 4:45 PM EDT

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A Kabul family flees its home during factional fighting between President Rabbani’s government forces and opposition Hezb-i-Islami and Hezb-i-Wahdat fighters in western Kabul in March 1993";

Robert Nickelsberg

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Car and truck traffic back up near an intersection under the Pul-e-Sokhta bridge in western Kabul. March 2013.

Robert Nickelsberg

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An Afghan soldier hands a flag in solidarity to a departing Soviet soldier in Kabul on the first day of the army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in May 1988.";

Robert Nickelsberg

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In Sept. 1996, Taliban soldiers fire a rocket at retreating forces of the Northern Alliance army north of Kabul.

Robert Nickelsberg

Photographer and University of Vermont alumni Robert Nickelsberg’s newest book of images, Afghanistan: A Distant War, offers a stunning look at the emotional cost of war.

In it, we see Americans at work with the daily toil of battle, wearing the stress and exhaustion on their faces. We also come very close to the people Afghanistan, struggling in a variety of ways with conflict that began long before Americans arrived.

Nickelsberg will be presenting his work and lecturing at Mt. Philo Friday, May 16 at 7 p.m.