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Afghanistan
Adam Ferguson

Afghanistan

Adam Ferguson is a 36-year old Australian photographer who first traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan in 2008 on a self-funded trip. After his first experience there, he returned several more times embedded with U.S. Army units and on his own. The body of work he produced while there is tentatively titled "Afghanistan" and was shortlisted for the 2014 European Publishers Award for Photography.

Photos
57
Status
Public
Created
May 22, 2014
Updated
Feb 09, 2022
Categories
Documentary

Photos (57)

A U.S. soldier from the 1st Infantry Division, carries ammunition to Observation Post 1, a post which overlooks the Korengal Out Post (KOP), the U.S. Army’s base of operations in the Korengal Valley, in Afghanistan, on March 27, 2009. This is the site of some of the heaviest fighting in Afghanistan since the coalition entered. © Adam Ferguson
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Korengal village elders arrive at the Korengal Out Post. The Bravo Company Commander and elders discussed compensation to locals for damage caused by U.S. bombs and the detention of a local man suspected of ties to the Taliban. © Adam Ferguson
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A local Afghan man is detained for questioning by U.S. Army at Combat Operations Post Tangi, in the Tangi Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan, on September 12, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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A U.S. Marine from the 3rd Battalion 6th Marines, records the biometric data of a villager at a mosque. © Adam Ferguson
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A view of the northern outskirts of Kandahar City in Afghanistan, on Thursday, September 6, 2010. © Adam Ferguson
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Afghan men seen inside a bird market, during the lead up to Afghan presidential elections, in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 16, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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Afghan women receive food assistance at a World Food Program distribution centre in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, March 8, 2011. © Adam Ferguson
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A young boy looks from a car stopped at an Afghan National Army checkpoint in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, on April 2, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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Afghan money changers and customers do business in the Sarai Shahzada Money Market in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 10, 2011. Millions of dollars in different currencies changes hands in the market daily. © Adam Ferguson
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Female Afghan Hazara students sit an exam at the Marefat High School in Dasht-i-Barchi in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, December 14, 2009. The Hazara are a Shiite minority in Afghanistan who have at times been persecuted by Afghanistan’s dominant Pashtun ethnic group. © Adam Ferguson
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Afghan boys fly kites at a cemetery during the lead up to Afghan presidential elections in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 14, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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Afghan people seen at a Soviet-era swimming pool atop Swimming Pool Hill in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 20, 2008. © Adam Ferguson
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A young Afghan man selling horse rides, rides near Afghan Security Forces, in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 14, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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A banner depicting Afghan President Hamid Karzai hangs in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 4, 2010. © Adam Ferguson
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An Afghan Commando attempts to control a scene at Pashtunistan Square after insurgents attacked with two suicide bombers and the rest fought to the death with Afghan Security Forces near the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 18, 2010. © Adam Ferguson
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Afghans use heroin in the old city in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 18, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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A photo of an Afghan man is discarded with used matches and foil used for smoking heroin at the old Soviet Cultural Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 16, 2008. © Adam Ferguson
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A Bollywood film plays in a cinema in Kabul, Afghanistan on October 12, 2008. © Adam Ferguson
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Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate and former foreign minister Dr Abdullah Abdullah gather at a rally at the National Stadium in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 17, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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Afghan Security Forces secure the scene of a suicide car bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan on December 15, 2009. It was reported that eight people were killed and 40 were wounded. © Adam Ferguson
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A stretcher and blood stain remain on the ground after an ISAF convoy consisting of Italian military vehicles was targeted in a car bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, September 17, 2009. Six Italian soldiers and an estimated ten civilians were killed in a car bomb attack on the ISAF military convoy. © Adam Ferguson
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Razor wire seen at Combat Operations Post Margah, the outpost of the 172nd Infantry Brigade, U.S. Army in Paktika Province, Afghanistan on September 8, 2011. © Adam Ferguson
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A view from a U.S. Army armoured vehicle as it drives through Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan on October 4, 2008. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division walk above Loi Kolay Village as they return to Fire Base Restrepo, after being attacked by insurgents in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, on May 7, 2009. Two squads came under attack as they left Loi Kolay Village while on a patrol to question village elders. © Adam Ferguson
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Smoke rises from a U.S. bomb dropped on a suspected insurgent position as a patrol of troops from the 1st Infantry Division comes under attack in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, on April 15, 2009. A U.S. soldier was killed by an IED before the patrol came under insurgent fire. © Adam Ferguson
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A U.S. Army soldier from the 10th Mountain Division surveys a road with a Long Range Acquisition Sight, on an observation post in the Tangi Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan, on September 4, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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An Afghan National Police person seen through U.S. Army night vision during a night patrol led by 935 Agribusiness Development Team (ADT), a team composed of National Guard Soldiers, near Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan on September 27, 2008. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company of the 1st Infantry Division sit for a patrol debrief in the kitchen area of Fire Base Restrepo in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan on April 4, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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A squad of U.S. soldiers from Bravo Company of the 1st Infantry Division enter Loi Kolay, a known insurgent village, in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, on April 7, 2009. After leaving the village the patrol was ambushed by insurgents. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines, Combat Operations Post Coutu, Marja District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Marines of the 3rd Battalion 6th Marines, stand near the burn pit at Patrol Base Beatley. U.S. Marines entered Marja District in Helmand Province, Southern Afghanistan in February 2010 as part of the largest joint operation by NATO and Afghan forces to be conducted in the US-led occupation to that point. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Army Sergeant Anderson, after a patrol in the Tangi Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan, on September 11, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division fire mortars on suspected insurgent positions, at the Korengal Out Post (KOP), in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan on April 1, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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Soldiers from the 12th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army, play catch with a baseball at Combat Operations Post Jones Fitzgibbon Michel in Pashmul, Zhari District, Kandahar, Afghanistan, on April 8, 2010. © Adam Ferguson
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A U.S. soldier from the 1st Infantry Division takes cover while watching the hillsides of Loi Kolay Village being mortared and bombed by U.S. forces in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, on April 7, 2009. Two squads came under attack as they left Loi Kolay Village while on a patrol to question village elders. © Adam Ferguson
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A U.S. Army soldier from the 10th Mountain Division, watches a laptop computer in their tent at Combat Operations Post Tangi, in the Tangi Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan, on September 12, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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A U.S. Army soldier from Charlie Company, 2-28 Infantry, 172nd Infantry Brigade poses with ammunition belts used for underwear at Combat Operations Post Margah in Paktika Province on September 3, 2011. © Adam Ferguson
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A U.S. Army soldier from Bravo Company of the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division exercises with weights at Observation Post Dallas in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, on March 30, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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Sgt 1st Class Chet Millard from RCP 5 of the 9-51 Engineer Company, Sappers from the 276th Engineer Battalion serving with the Army National Guard out of Rhinelander, WI, U.S. Army, lays on a stretcher awaiting medical evacuation helicopters after he was injured in an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack. © Adam Ferguson
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Smoke from white phosphorous mortars used by U.S. Army to deter insurgents from engaging them is used during a patrol in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan on March 31, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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A young Afghan man is searched and questioned by U.S. Army soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division in the Tangi Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan on September 8, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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Afghan National Police broke their fast for Iftar during Ramadan while a soldier from the 504th U.S. Military Police Battalion provided security in the Mehlajat area of Kandahar City, Afghanistan on September 6, 2010. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Army soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division patrol in the Tangi Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan on September 1, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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Michael Miller sits nearby U.S. Army Soldiers while they attend to Staff Sergeant Daniel Quintana after he was shot during a patrol in Bermel District, on Sept. 10, 2011. They had conducted a joint patrol with Afghan National Army on the eve of the decade anniversary of 9/11 when they were ambushed. © Adam Ferguson
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Staff Sergeant Daniel Quintana was shot during the fighting and died after being evacuated to military medical facilities. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Army Sergeant Phil Poitra from the 276th Engineer Battalion sits with head injuries after an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Army soldiers take cover and help an injured soldier during while ambushed on a patrol in Bermel District, Paktika Province, Afghanistan on Sept. 10, 2011. © Adam Ferguson
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A U.S. Army flare burns to signal a medical evacuation helicopter during a patrol in conducted in Bermel District, on Sept. 10, 2011 © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Army Soldiers from the 276th Engineer Battalion attempt to clear the scene of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack on a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAP) in the Tangi Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan on September 8, 2009. Three U.S. soldiers were evacuated by air after being injured in the attack. © Adam Ferguson
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3rd Battalion, 6th Marines come under attack while on patrol as part of a joint NATO operation in Marja District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on July 27, 2010. U.S. Marines provided a security cordon to an operation conducted by British forces in the neighboring area of operation. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Army soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, patrol in the Tangi Valley, Wardak Province, Afghanistan on September 11, 2009. Afghan National Army and Apache Company conducted a four-day mission to show an increased presence in the area and to search target houses. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines use a flare to signal a landing position to a medevac helicopter near Patrol Base Beatley in Margah District. © Adam Ferguson
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Afghan National Police break for lunch during training at the Kabul Military Training Centre in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 19, 2010. © Adam Ferguson
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U.S. Army supplies are dropped by parachute at Combat Operations Post Margah, the outpost of the 172nd Infantry Brigade, U.S. Army in Paktika Province, Afghanistan on September 7, 2011. © Adam Ferguson
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A balloon floats over a camp for internally displaced people on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, December 17, 2009. © Adam Ferguson
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Targets sit on a shooting range during an introduction to firearms class for Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) at the Kabul Military Training Centre in Afghanistan on August 22 2011. © Adam Ferguson
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A flock of trained pigeons flies from a house in Kabul’s old city in Afghanistan on July 5, 2010. © Adam Ferguson
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