Frame by Frame

Before the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001, taking pictures was considered a crime in Afghanistan. Since then, a new free press has emerged. This prize-winning film tells the stories of four photographers who fought tenaciously, in extremely difficult conditions, to reconstruct and document a new country. In this new phase, Afghan photo-journalism takes on narrative force, with an eye on the beauty of a complex landscape in counterpoint and the travails of a war-torn country. Farzana Wahidy concentrates on the feminine condition. Her husband Massoud Hossaini, a photoreporter who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for a picture shot during a bombardment, share a strong love for their country and fight together in unstable, precarious situations. Najibullah Musafar and Wakil Kohsar work to document the identity of a people and a nation, in the firm conviction that the power of images can point to new perspectives and change.