Afghan Women

Another favourite of mine from this year's World Press Photo. These are two potraits of Afghan women from a simply beautiful collection of ten.

Lana Slezic, Panos Pictures, Portraits: 3rd prize stories.

"Six years after the ousting of the Taliban regime, the lives of many women in Afghanistan remain unaltered. Honor killings, forced marriage, domestic violence and denial of education continue to affect women daily. These portraits of women in Kabul were made by focusing a modern digital camera onto the glass plate inside an old-fashioned Afghan box camera."