Erlon Da Silva,18
Erlon Da Silva,18, does pull-ups on top of Arpoador rock in Rio. #beachgames
Year: 2014
Goat Herders
Photo by @andrewquilty for @burndiary. Goat Herders. 1.2.2014. Four young boys take a break from herding their goats on a rocky hillside in the #Panjshir #Valley, lighting a small #fire of grass and roots to warm their hands on a typically cold day in the high country north of #Kabul. This small valley, an offshoot …
Buzkashi
Photo by @andrewquilty for @burndiary. Buzkashi. 31.1.2014. ** MY APOLOGIES FOR THE Y’DAY’S POST-LESS DAY. NO WWW WHERE I WAS & WHERE THE FOLLOWING POSTS ARE FROM ** The horseback game of “Buzkashi” is one of the most popular amongst central and south Asian countries. For the “wrestlers” as the participants are known, the famous …
On Duty
Photo by @andrewquilty for @burndiary. On Duty. 30.1.2014. The security forces that man the bombed-out remains of Darulaman Palace in Kabul’s south are pretty handy volleyball players and surely they’ve got one of the more spectacular courts going around, too. #volleyball #spprts #sport #darulaman #palace #kabul #afghanistan #pool
Darulaman Palace
Photo by @andrewquilty for @burndiary. Darulaman Palace. 30.1.2014. #Light streams through a hole in a wall of #Darulaman #Palace (“Abode of #Peace”) in southern #Kabul. The Palace was built by and housed King Amanullah #Khan nearly 100 years ago as a part of his broader intention of modernizing #Afghanistan. The Palace was to be the …
Kafta Bazi
Photo by @andrewquilty for @burndiary. Kafta Bazi. 29.1.2014. A man trains his flock in the art of “Kafta Bazi” or Play of Pigeons, on his #rooftop that also houses his birds. When a competition is arranged between rival fanciers (as the trainers are known), the two attempt to guide their flocks through a series of …
The Afghan Sling
Photo by @andrewquilty for @burndiary. The Afghan Sling. 29.1.2014. I haven’t met an Afghan boy who isn’t deadly with one of these. Here, they call them “Palaghman” – that’s as good as I can do with a phonetic translation anyway. I couldn’t resist buying one myself the other day and have so far managed to …
Headstone-Littered Hill
Photo by @andrewquilty for @burndiary. The Western Side of a headstone-littered hill in Qalai Musa get it’s first rays of sun for the day. There’s barely a hillside in Kabul that isn’t covered with countless slabs of slate marking the thousands upon thousands of graves. Few of them are marked but that doesn’t hinder family …
Hair Cutter
Photo by @andrewquilty for @burndiary. Roadside Trim. 28.1.2014. An elderly man, crippled by a land mine that took his right leg below the knee, makes a living cutting hair in a small, makeshift #shelter by the side of the road in the #Taimani district of #Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. #landmine #stylist #hairdresser #hair #beard …
Toxic Fire
Photo by @andrewquilty for @BURNdiary. After six hours of chasing and waiting for a visa renewal today, my writer & friend Claire and I saw clouds of rusty, orange smoke billowing from behind some buildings a couple of blocks away. Fortunately it wasn’t the result of anything malicious – as is all-too-often the case in …