- Joined
- Thursday March 30, 2017
@Helveticum - portraits - Kabul - 1995. One of Ahmad Shah Massud's Pansheri Tajiks. Playing his flute to take his - our - minds off the fact we were being pummeled by incoming mortar rounds from the opposing Hesb-e Islami troops. They were literally just across the road. The firing positions would have been a bit further back. We were hiding and trying to put as much concrete between us and them as possible. You don't want to be on open ground with mortar shells dropping around you. They have a horrifyingly wide kill radius. I don't mind admitting, i was shitting myself. I trusted these guys and they looked after me. My first experience of combat photography. I learned good lessons that have stood me in good stead since. To this day - all these years later - fireworks put the shits up me. That's what war sounds like. Yours - I. - Olympus OM3 or OM4 or OM1 - I can't remember. Kodak Tri-X - certainly.