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</script>https://kyotographie-2025.kyotojournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Lana-Slezak_4000-1200x783-1.webp1200783Photographer Lana Šlezić arrived in Kabul in 2004 on a six-week assignment intending to show how women’s lives had improved since the fall of the Taliban three years earlier. Discovering that human rights violations such as denial of education, forced marriage, and forced prostitution had in fact persisted, she extended her project for two years, traveling the war-torn country with her translator and friend, Forzana. They were welcomed by Afghan women into the private spaces, where they documented widespread physical abuse, death by suicide (commonly by dousing themselves with cooking oil and setting themselves on fire), and so-called “honor killings” at the hands of male relatives. These beautiful but unsparing […]