Kim Barker, "The Taliban Shuffle," 2011
Top: Butcher Street, 2007
Middle: Chicken Street, 2007
Bottom: TV Hill during a blizzard, 2006
(Photos: Jim Chiavelli)
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Afghanistan Quote of the Day: 1 March 2014
"We interviewed Afghans on TV Mountain, so named because the TV stations had transmitters on top. Kabul was a very literal city: Butcher Street was where the butchers were, where slabs of questionable meat hung, covered with flies. Chicken Street was where chickens used to be sold, but Chicken Street had evolved into the tourist market, where in the 1960s hippies shopped for fur jackets, silver trinkets, and carpets."
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