Living Afghanistan - Art Exhibit | Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures

March 22 - April 29, 2022

12:00PM - 12:00PM

Hagerty Hall - Global Gallery

Add to Calendar 2022-03-22 11:00:59 2022-04-29 11:00:00 Living Afghanistan - Art Exhibit When you think of Afghanistan, what do you imagine? A war-torn desert or the homeland of a people with diverse cultures and a rich history? This exhibit stands as a testament to everyday life in Afghanistan through the photojournalism of Robert Nickelsberg. In August 2021, the United States military withdrew after two decades in Afghanistan and the Taliban quickly took over. We in the United States saw many different images in the media: soldiers and fighters, desperate crowds, explosions, victims, and scared and hungry civilians. With this exhibit, we want to show how Afghans live, outside of how we see them in the news of the war and violence that surrounds them, and celebrate how they are preserving their history, culture, and heritage. We hope to challenge how you may think of Afghanistan and add a human element to a country and a culture that is often presented to us through a militarized lens. Afghanistan has a rich and diverse heritage, it has been a crossroads in Central Asia, home to expansive empires and wandering nomads for millenia. Afghans, in the midst of political turmoil, are preserving their culture and heritage while living their history every day. The photos in this exhibit were taken by photographer Robert Nickelsberg. Nickelsberg worked as a TIME magazine contract photographer for nearly thirty years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries in Central America, South America, the Middle East, and Asia.  Nickelsberg has documented Afghanistan since 1988, when he accompanied a group of mujahideen crossing the border from Pakistan. Most of these. The photos were taken by him in the fall of 2016, part of a project funded by the U.S. Department of State to document cultural heritage sites in Afghanistan, collected in the book Afghanistan’s Heritage (2018). A few photos are from Nickelsberg's book Afghanistan: A Distant War (2013), which represents his decades of work in Afghanistan.  Join us on Tuesday, March 29th, when Robert Nickelsberg will be on campus in the global gallery to expand on his experiences in Afghanistan and dive deeper into the incredible photos being showcased. Hagerty Hall - Global Gallery OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

2022-03-22 12:00:59 2022-04-29 12:00:00 Living Afghanistan - Art Exhibit When you think of Afghanistan, what do you imagine? A war-torn desert or the homeland of a people with diverse cultures and a rich history?  This exhibit stands as a testament to everyday life in Afghanistan through the photojournalism of Robert Nickelsberg. In August 2021, the United States military withdrew after two decades in Afghanistan and the Taliban quickly took over. We in the United States saw many different images in the media: soldiers and fighters, desperate crowds, explosions, victims, and scared and hungry civilians. With this exhibit, we want to show how Afghans live, outside of how we see them in the news of the war and violence that surrounds them, and celebrate how they are preserving their history, culture, and heritage. We hope to challenge how you may think of Afghanistan and add a human element to a country and a culture that is often presented to us through a militarized lens. Afghanistan has a rich and diverse heritage, it has been a crossroads in Central Asia, home to expansive empires and wandering nomads for millenia. Afghans, in the midst of political turmoil, are preserving their culture and heritage while living their history every day.  The photos in this exhibit were taken by photographer Robert Nickelsberg. Nickelsberg worked as a TIME magazine contract photographer for nearly thirty years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries in Central America, South America, the Middle East, and Asia.  Nickelsberg has documented Afghanistan since 1988, when he accompanied a group of mujahideen crossing the border from Pakistan. Most of these. The photos were taken by him in the fall of 2016, part of a project funded by the U.S. Department of State to document cultural heritage sites in Afghanistan, collected in the book Afghanistan’s Heritage (2018). A few photos are from  Nickelsberg's book Afghanistan: A Distant War (2013), which represents his decades of work in Afghanistan.   Join us on Tuesday, March 29th, when Robert Nickelsberg will be on campus in the global gallery to expand on his experiences in Afghanistan and dive deeper into the incredible photos being showcased. Hagerty Hall - Global Gallery America/New_York public

When you think of Afghanistan, what do you imagine? A war-torn desert or the homeland of a people with diverse cultures and a rich history?

This exhibit stands as a testament to everyday life in Afghanistan through the photojournalism of Robert Nickelsberg. In August 2021, the United States military withdrew after two decades in Afghanistan and the Taliban quickly took over. We in the United States saw many different images in the media: soldiers and fighters, desperate crowds, explosions, victims, and scared and hungry civilians. With this exhibit, we want to show how Afghans live, outside of how we see them in the news of the war and violence that surrounds them, and celebrate how they are preserving their history, culture, and heritage. We hope to challenge how you may think of Afghanistan and add a human element to a country and a culture that is often presented to us through a militarized lens. Afghanistan has a rich and diverse heritage, it has been a crossroads in Central Asia, home to expansive empires and wandering nomads for millenia. Afghans, in the midst of political turmoil, are preserving their culture and heritage while living their history every day.

The photos in this exhibit were taken by photographer Robert Nickelsberg. Nickelsberg worked as a TIME magazine contract photographer for nearly thirty years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries in Central America, South America, the Middle East, and Asia.  Nickelsberg has documented Afghanistan since 1988, when he accompanied a group of mujahideen crossing the border from Pakistan. Most of these. The photos were taken by him in the fall of 2016, part of a project funded by the U.S. Department of State to document cultural heritage sites in Afghanistan, collected in the book Afghanistan’s Heritage (2018). A few photos are from Nickelsberg's book Afghanistan: A Distant War (2013), which represents his decades of work in Afghanistan. 

Join us on Tuesday, March 29th, when Robert Nickelsberg will be on campus in the global gallery to expand on his experiences in Afghanistan and dive deeper into the incredible photos being showcased.