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Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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A family from Kabul is waiting to be evacuated to the US in a hotel in Mazar. The Taliban came to their home several times to look for the father, an executive of the former regime. They had to flee in the middle of the night with a bag of belongings each. Many Afghans, especially those who have collaborated with foreign countries such as France or the United States, try to migrate abroad to escape Taliban domination.

Kabul, Afghanistan
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Taliban youths enjoy an ice cream at an amusement park in Kabul on September 9. Only a few places of entertainment have not yet been closed by the Taliban, such as the zoo and the amusement park. Most of the young Taliban can go to such a place for the first time in their lives.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Kabul, September 11. Since the beginning of the summer, some 20,000 exhausted people have reached Kabul after a chaotic journey in the face of the Taliban's lightning advance from the north. If the luckiest have been welcomed by relatives or people of good will, the vast majority of these civilians -ordinary- have found themselves destitute in the city's parks.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Mohammad Hamed Sarhadi, 29, commands a Taliban base in Kabul.

Afghanistan 2021
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A group of young Hazara women in front of a mosque on September 10. Hazaras make up 10 to 20 percent of Afghanistan's estimated 40 million people and have long been marginalized. Since the return of the Taliban to power, the community has lived in fear of possible abuses.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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End of the day on September 8 in Kabul. On the heights of the city, citizens and Taliban come to admire the view and take souvenir photos. In the foreground, a young girl waits for her father to take the picture.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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An alley in the village of Arghandi, Paghman district.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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On September 7 in the streets of Kabul, women answered the call for a national uprising. They have just been chased away in front of the Pakistani embassy, which is trying to intimidate them with shots in the air. In the picture this woman is holding a sign saying not to kill the innocent people of Panshir.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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From left to right: twin sisters Zarifa (engineering student) and Sudaba (unemployed since the arrival of the Taliban), Taïba (in charge of Farah's gender department), and Farida (economics student). The 4 women are feminist activists in Kabul and want to continue the fight for their rights as long as it is possible.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Rahmatullah Ezati, 48 years old, head projectionist of the Ariana cinema in Kabul, knows that he risks a lot if the Taliban find the films he hides there. -I'm afraid they won't let me explain my job to them and that they will kill me for no reason" - The cinema, which was closed because it was forbidden by Sharia law, had already been destroyed when the Islamists took power in 1996.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Students at a madrassa in the Paghman district. In this Pashtun region, the minority from which the Taliban originate, the war was long. Stigmatized by the Afghan army, many civilians have died because of the bombings, or caught in the crossfire.

Afghanistan 2021
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A farming family cleans carrots in Paghman district on September 18. Agriculture is the main activity of the country. The agricultural area is estimated at 38 million hectares, but half of this area produces almost nothing: only 8% is irrigated, so Afghanistan is a dry land. Nearly 50% of the workers in Afghanistan are employed in agriculture, with precarious status and minimal wages.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Soraya, 25 years old, begs on the road between Mazar-e Sharif and Kabul. She has to take care of her two nephews after the death of her brother.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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This Friday, September 17, Taliban come to visit the domain of Bala Bagh, former holiday resort of the royalty. Friday is a very important day for Muslims, it is dedicated to prayer and rest.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Taliban come to visit the estate of Bala Bagh, former resort of the royalty.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Taliban come to enjoy themselves at the Kabul Zoo on September 9.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Ruin of the war in the north of Afghanistan, not far from Mazar-e Sharif.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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An unfinished power line construction site in northern Afghanistan. As a symbol for the millions of dollars allocated by the Americans for the construction of new infrastructures, and which were spent in vain. Anti-corruption is one of the main arguments of the Taliban to rally the population.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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High voltage line in the desert between Kandahar and Kabul.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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The road linking Kabul to Kandahar. Built in the 1960s, the Kandahar-Kabul road was one of the most dangerous in the country. This road is a vital axis between the two main cities of Afghanistan and a symbol for the international community engaged in a vast renovation project.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Taliban admire the view from the gardens of Qasir-e-Tape-Paghman Palace.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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A Taliban patrol on its way to the battle of Panshir in early September.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Afghans at the open-air market in Howz-e-Madad near Kandahar, where a tiny fraction of Afghanistan's huge opium production is sold.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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A young Taliban on the heights of Kabul, September 08, 2021.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Sudaba, feminist activist in Kabul on September 13, 2021.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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On Saturday 11 September, the Taliban invited local and international journalists to an event to promote education among women in the Emirate. Dozens of female students wearing Niqab are present in the amphitheater of the polytechnic university to support the fundamentalists' policy.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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A young Taliban fighter in Kabul on September 08, 2021

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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A Taliban fighter in Kabul on September 08, 2021

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Taqi Daryabi, 22 years old, is a journalist in Kabul. He was arrested by the Taliban during a demonstration. As soon as he arrived at the police station, he was put in an empty room, with his hands tied behind his back, and for 15 minutes he was beaten on the head with sticks, cables and pipes. His comrade Nematullah Naqdi suffered the same fate, they were released after several hours in the cell. Despite the promises of the Taliban, the freedom of the press is dying out in Afghanistan. The leaders of the country have issued "rules of journalism", which all media must follow. The first three points of the rules require not to broadcast subjects contrary to Islam...

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Nematullah Naqdi, 28, is a journalist in Kabul. He was arrested during a demonstration, and tortured once he arrived at the police station. Several days after his release, his face still bears the scars of the beating.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Shepherds in the Kandahar region on December 10, 2021.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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A field in the Kandahar region on December 10, 2021. Farmers have been suffering from a lack of rain since the beginning of the year, which has drastically reduced their crops and their income.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Herat on December 03, 2021. Displaced people came to settle at the entrance of the city. Most of them are peasants, the drought and the war have made them lose everything.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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A humanitarian from the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres during a visit to an IDP camp near Herat on December 1, 2021.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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In the second hand market Baharista, families come to sell their household appliances, furniture, dishes to make some money. The economic crisis hits the country hard.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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In the streets of Kabul, the Taliban have set up numerous checkpoints. In recent weeks, the local branch of the Islamic State has targeted fundamentalists, as well as certain minorities.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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In the control room of the Tolo News channel in Kabul on November 24.

Kabul, Afghanistan
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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In the newsroom of the Tolo News channel in Kabul on November 24, two journalists are working. The media now has more women than at the beginning of the year, before the Taliban took over.

Afghanistan 2021
Adrien Vautier / Le Pictorium
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Taqi Daryabi, 22, and Nematullah Naqdi, 28, are journalists with Etilaatroz, an Afghan media outlet. They were arrested in early September by the Taliban while covering a demonstration. As soon as they arrived at the police station, they were put in an empty room with their hands tied behind their backs. Then for 15 minutes, they were beaten with sticks, cables and pipes. They are released after several hours. Despite the promises of the Taliban, freedom of the press is dying out in Afghanistan. The country's leaders have issued -Rules of Journalism-, which all media must follow. The first three points of the rules require not to broadcast subjects contrary to Islam...