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The Afghan Women’s National Basketball squad.

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Strongly pro-Taliban refugees. For the photograph, they chose to partially cover their faces.

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Afghan Police being trained by US Marines, Camp Leatherneck.

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The crew and ground staff of the new independent operator, ‘Safi Airways’.

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Young women in the indoor skatepark of the NGO ‘Skateistan’, set up by American volunteers to help young Afghans improve their skateboarding and indoor rock-climbing skills.

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At a music school on Kabul, boys are taught the traditional Afghan instrument the rubab. Difficult to play, it is a skill which nearly became extinct due to the Taliban prohibition on secular music.

Some of the Media Operations team including a Combat Camera unit, Camp Bastion, Helmand.

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The Political Staff of the British Embassy.

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The future leadership of the Afghan Air Force with Maj. Jason A. Church of the US Marines who is training and funding them.

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A de-mining team from the Mine Detection Centre in Kabul with a member of the German Police who is mentoring them.

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A view of Kabul city centre from Bala Burj.

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Historically, Kuchis were strongly pro-Taliban; feelings made more intense by being bombed by NATO off their traditional grazing lands in Helmand. They are allowed to set up camp here on Kabul’s periphery only because it is below a large, new Afghan Army

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At Waisalabad high above West Kabul. It has taken 26 men from the Mine Detection Centre and four de-mining dogs more than three months to clear mines from an area the size of a few soccer pitches. Kabul’s rapid expansion has increased pressure for buildin

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A Shia cemetery on the flanks of Kohe Asmai.

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Before dawn, construction workers warm themselves over burning plastic and cardboard before beginning the job of attempting to get hired for a day’s work.

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The entrance to a small, western-backed NGO.

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The entrance to one of the dining halls at the Sham-e-Paris wedding complex.

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Radio Afghanistan’s radio transmitters paid for by American money; broadcasting official government news and anti-Taliban security alerts.

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Yards supplying construction materials in the Nawabadi Guzargah district of Kabul, overlooked by American-controlled electronic eavesdropping equipment on the summit of Kobe Asmai.

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Some of the astonishing new architecture mushrooming up in cities all over Afghanistan. Part Disney, part wedding cake; inspired by Bollywood but reverential to Greek classicism; it represents an architectless kind of architecture.

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