Double exposure: unknown at Kabul hotel poolside/ two mujahideen guarding aircraft at Mazar-e ...

Accession Number AWM2022.317.2.25
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Bohane, Ben
Place made Afghanistan: Kabul
Date made c April 1992
Conflict Period 1990-1999
Copyright

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Description

Double exposure: unknown at Kabul hotel poolside/ two mujahideen guarding aircraft at Mazar-e Sharif airfield. One of a series of photographs taken on already-developed film by the Australian photojournalist, Ben Bohane, who travelled to Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif to report on the Mujahideen victory. The used film was purchased by an unsuspecting Bohane from a shop in Kabul – its duplication not discovered until processed in London many months later. The original owner of the film was of Western European appearance, and seemingly on a tour of humanitarian sites such as the Red Cross Hospital in Kabul.