So, I'm much in love with The Atlantic's In Focus column and the photographs on it, and wanted a place to share a few (with link back to source and all) but figured this could be a thread for the photography lovers (and takers) to post things they come across. Big pics incoming...
So anyway:
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Foreign soldiers leave the Intercontinental Hotel at the end of a military operation against Taliban militants who had stormed the hotel in Kabul, on June 29, 2011. Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul sparking a five-hour battle with Afghan commandos backed by a NATO helicopter gunship in an assault that left at least 10 people dead.
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This one just struck me like the shot every action movie wishes that it could have.
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An Afghan child watches as others from the Community Center for the Disabled (CCD) take part in a performance on child labor to honor "World Day Against Child Labour" at The French Culture Center in Kabul, on June 12, 2011.
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Something about her just struck me, additionally I think that many people wouldn't have coded her as Afghan.
The rest of the photos at this link are excellent.
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