Earlier this week, Gullalai Salimi forwarded these photographs to me. They were taken by her late father, back when Gullalai was a child growing up in Afghanistan. Afghan society was more tolerant in the 1960s, and so the country she knew 50 years ago bears little resemblance to the modern-day incarnation.
With her permission, I digitally scanned Gullalai‘s original film photographs and decided to post the images here because I thought they may be of general interest to the viewership of this site.
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Prosophos 
These are great Peter. I am a big fan of Khaled Hosseini, who wrote the The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns and recently And The Mountains Echoed (reading it at the moment)…..
If you have not read these it takes you back into a time when Afghanistan was as you say “society was more tolerant”. Very good writer and great stories about a country I’d love to visit. Though fairly certain it wont happen any time soon :-)!
Thanks for sharing.
Hey Andrew, thank you for the recommendations. I’ll definitely have a look – I’ve been looking for some new reading material for a while now…
Definitely enjoyed these. Thanks for sharing.
Jason.
Spoken like a true lover of film photography. Thank you Jason!
Thank you so much Peter for sharing these images; they are wonderful. I also recommend Hosseini’s The Kite Runner. I haven’t read his other two books; but I purchased them, and they’re in my pile of books to read.
Thank you. And thank you for the recommendation.
I love this kind of find–what rare treasures!
Assuming most people don’t often print, it always make me wonder if our digital photos will be around in sixty years!
Thanks for sharing them,
-M.
Treasures indeed.
You speak as if you’re engaged in some sort of 50 film roll project (http://iftimestoodstill.net/the-50-roll-project/).
Heh…that I am, that I am;
Thanks to you, Roll Four is up…Please have a look!
All the best,
-M.