Le Journal de la Photographie

In the poverty-stricken region of Badakshan, villages are full of opium addicts. Opium is used to kill pain pain because there is no medicine available; it is also given to babies © Monika Bulaj

Monika Bulaj In the poverty-stricken region of Badakshan, villages are full of opium addicts. Opium is used to kill pain pain because there is no medicine available; it is also given to babies © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj The cemetery in Herat. It is believed that every seventh bird is inhabited by the soul of death – so it is wise to give water and millet to all © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj A winter’s night 2010 in Abu Fazal Wali Mosque, the same that will be the target of the brutal suicide attack 7 th December 2011, did by pakistani terroristic group. In this holy shrine Shia Muslims practice in of the ancestral religious rites of self-flagellation for Imam Hussein, their bodies c... Monika Bulaj Ashura 2010, between Sunni Muslims © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj In this remote region, caught behind the Pamir mountains and the closed borders of Tajikistan, China and Pakistan, live the hopeless Kirghiz people, a nomadic people who decided to live in their summer quarters in these highlands after the Soviets took over Central Asia © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj Ashura 2010, between Shia Muslims © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj Kabul, 2010 © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj Members of Afghanistan’s Ismaili minority community. They are known for their tolerant treatment of women, and for a history of strong mysticism. Badakshan © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj The sanctuary in Kabul © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj Bazaar in Kabul © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj At the largest Afghan school in Heart, some 13,000 girls are so passionate about learning that they study in hiding underground, and in tents where scorpions lurk © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj Sixteen-year-old Shirin became the head of her family, after her brother fell through the roof of the house and became a paraplegic. Mud houses in Kabul crumble easily because of the heavy rains. When this picture was taken, Shirin had just been told by her landlord that she would have to move ou... Monika Bulaj Waiting for amulets in front of the mullah’s home in the Khost Wa firing valley, near Baglan. Neither the Russians during the period they occupied Afghanistan, nor the Taliban, dare to enter this area © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj Kabul, 2010 © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj Members of Afghanistan’s Ismaili minority community, branch od Shia Islam. They are known for their tolerant treatment of women, and for a history of strong mysticism. Wakhan © Monika Bulaj Monika Bulaj Kabul, 2010 © Monika Bulaj