--- title: A Long and Distant War: Photos from Afghanistan, 1988-2009 description: Thirteen years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, a look at photographer Robert Nickelsberg's intense images of the decade-long conflict, published in a new monograph from Prestel. canonical: https://time.com/18203/a-distant-war-photographs-of-afghanistan-by-robert-nickelsberg/ author: Tim McGirk article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2011-10-03T08:00:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:42:03.546Z article:section: World og:title: A Long and Distant War: Photos from Afghanistan, 1988-2009 og:description: Thirteen years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, a look at photographer Robert Nickelsberg's intense images of the decade-long conflict, published in a new monograph from Prestel. og:url: https://time.com/18203/a-distant-war-photographs-of-afghanistan-by-robert-nickelsberg/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt692a49519db4accc/698684bc169ab0452c27829f/252.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 25 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Long and Distant War: Photos from Afghanistan, 1988-2009 twitter:description: Thirteen years after the start of the war in Afghanistan, a look at photographer Robert Nickelsberg's intense images of the decade-long conflict, published in a new monograph from Prestel. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt692a49519db4accc/698684bc169ab0452c27829f/252.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Long and Distant War: Photos from Afghanistan, 1988-2009 > Sponsored content. 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He stands on a destroyed wall of a village 80 kms north of Kandahar bombed flat two weeks before by US jets. November, 2001 A local Afghan shepherd in Chowkar Karez shouts to his children to lead their flock of goats over to him. He stands on a destroyed wall of a village 80 kms north of Kandahar bombed flat two weeks before by US jets. November, 2001Robert Nickelsberg by [Tim McGirk](https://time.com/author/tim-mcgirk/) ## Tim McGirk Oct 3, 2011 8:00 AM UTC --- **Update, November 2013: Robert Nickelsberg’s work from Afghanistan has been compiled into a new monograph,** **_Aghanistan: A Distant War_** **,** **published by Prestel.** **_For more information on the book, author signings and related multimedia presentations visit_** [**_afghanistan.robertnickelsberg.com_**](http://afghanistan.robertnickelsberg.com/)**_._** --- Afghanistan is a hard place to enter and even harder to leave. Everything in Afghanistan, the geography, the weather, the tribesmen, all conspire to keep out unwanted visitors. And once you’re inside this labyrinth of stone, it’s nearly impossible to find your way out. Dust storms besiege Kabul’s airport, blizzards close the mountain passes and bandits or Taliban fighters (it’s hard to tell them apart) ambush the roads. Ask the British how hard it is to leave Afghanistan. During their infamous retreat from Kabul in 1842, only one survivor out of 17,500 soldiers and camp followers staggered out of the Kabul Gorge alive. Ask the Soviets, who fared nearly as badly. And if history is any judge, the Americans won’t face an easy departure, either. Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg has also found it impossible to leave. Since he first trekked into Afghanistan with the mujahedin in 1988, Nickelsberg keeps going back. He does so out of curiosity, duty and obsession. He was there for the Soviets’ withdrawal—flowers for tank gunners until the Red Army rumbled into the hairpins of the Hindu Kush and fell prey to ambush. He was there for the vicious civil war that broke out when the Soviet-backed regime fell apart in 1992 and Afghanistan’s ethnic groups, the Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks turned snarling on each other. (And may do so again, after NATO forces depart.) Nickelsberg was there for the Taliban’s conquest of Afghanistan, their swift fall after the U.S.-led invasion and the Taliban’s rise again. “The Americans didn’t grasp how complex this is,” Nickelsberg says, “The soldiers come and go so fast they barely have time to figure out where the sun rises and sets.” His photos bear witness to that complexity, to the savage beauty of Afghanistan and its people. His photos are spare, intense. Every image is stripped down to the essential drama, and in doing so Nickelsberg illuminates the pivotal moments in Afghanistan’s chronology of war and the brief, quiet moments in between, when Afghans catch their breath. When I first ventured into Afghanistan in 1990, I sought out Nickelsberg, thinking, unwisely, that he would keep me from getting shot at. It was quite the reverse. Nickelsberg reacts to gunfire like a bird dog to the rustle of quail. He led me straight into the Kabul Gorge, where in my imagination, ghosts from the British massacre flitted in the ravine’s bottomless shadows and menace was ever-present. Nickelsberg was looking for Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of Afghanistan’s more sadistic, and enduring, warlords. Luckily, we didn’t find Hekmatyar’s cutthroats that day, though a year later they would murder my Afghan translator. Following Nickelsberg into dangerous situations, mortar barrages, gun-battles, sieges and ambushes, became a pattern for the next 16 years of my life while I covered Afghanistan. He would get us into jams but he would always know how to get us out. Nickelsberg has longer legs than I do but, in retreat, I always out-ran him. Many journalists love to dress up like Afghans, with the long tunic, the baggy pantaloons and the flat woolen caps known as _pakools._ They’re like giddy children going off to a costume party. Not Nickelsberg. He dresses for war as if going for a brisk walk in the Vermont hills, his hair as clipped as a military officer’s, perfectly parted. In the midst of Afghanistan’s chaos, Nickelsberg always kept his composure, his flinty style. And this reflects in his photography: there is a sharpness to his composition, a rigorous clarity. Most photographers are captivated by swift light, motion and color, which Afghanistan has aplenty. But Nickelsberg stuck around. He bothered to learn about the people he portrays so keenly, the reasons why they laugh and cry—and kill. His photos aren’t just war and gore—though, undeniably, that’s part of Afghan history—but also the quotidian. Two shots in particular, young men dancing at a picnic in Babur’s gardens and warrior Ahmed Shah Masood sitting with his companions, have the delicacy of Mogul miniatures. Nicklesberg’s hard-won knowledge of Afghanistan gives a rare depth to his photos. He wasn’t just snapping a pretty picture. He knew he was capturing Afghanistan’s history, and ours. --- [**_Robert Nickelsberg_**](http://www.robertnickelsberg.com) _was a TIME magazine contract photographer for 25 years and was based in New Delhi from 1988 to 2000\. During that time, he documented conflicts in Kashmir, Iraq, Sri Lanka, India and Afghanistan. Currently represented by Getty Images, he is working on publishing a book of his photographs from Afghanistan._ **_Tim McGirk_**_, a former TIME bureau chief, has been covering Afghanistan on and off since 1990, when he first ventured in with photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg. McGirk is currently managing editor of the University of California at Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program._ ---  An Afghan mujahideen fighter carries a U.S. made stinger missile up a hill near Jaji, eastern Afghanistan. February, 1988 Robert Nickelsberg  An Afghan army soldier hands a Soviet flag in solidarity to a departing soldier on the first day of the Soviet army's withdrawal from Afghanistan. May, 1988 Robert Nickelsberg  Afghan military cadets march in Kabul during the celebration of the 1974 Saur Revolution, the Afghan Communist Party's political takeover. February, 1989 Robert Nickelsberg  Afghan mujahideen fighters move toward the front line during the battle for Jalalabad. March, 1989 Robert Nickelsberg  A mujahideen worker moves about the Zhawar training complex operated by Afghan warlord Jalaluddin Haqqani in the Khost province, near North Waziristan. May, 1990 Robert Nickelsberg  Afghan men in Kabul's Babur Gardens perform an attan dance, a traditional dance, during a Friday picnic. September, 1991 Robert Nickelsberg  Two Uzbek fighters under the control of Afghan General Abdul Rashid Dostum fire on Hezbi-Islami forces of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the SW part of Kabul during the mujahideen takeover of Kabul. April, 1992. Robert Nickelsberg  A family flees their home during factional fighting between President Rabbani government forces and the Hezb-e-Wahdat party made up of minority Hazaras. The fighting occurred near the Afshar neighborhood where a massacre of Hazara residents and militia occurred a few weeks before. March, 1993 Robert Nickelsberg  Soldiers loyal to President Burhanuddin Rabbani ride along the Kabul River in a BMP-1, a Russian-built armored vehicle. March, 1994 Robert Nickelsberg  Bodies of dead Hezb-e Wahdat Shia fighters are dumped on the ground in western Kabul, presumably killed by opposition Sunni fighters. Hundreds of Hazara Shiite civilians were killed by government factions in the nearby Afshar district. March, 1993 Robert Nickelsberg  A body of a dead Hezb-e Wahdat fighter dumped on the ground in western Kabul, presumably killed by opposition Sunni fighters. March, 1993 Robert Nickelsberg  Taliban soldiers fire a rocket at retreating forces of Ahmed Shah Massoud, north of Kabul. September, 1996 Robert Nickelsberg  A Taliban soldier walks away after a firefight mortally wounding his colleague. This began a two day massacre of hundreds of Taliban who tried to flee Mazar-i-Sharif when a peace agreement with local militiamen broke down. May, 1997 Robert Nickelsberg  A Taliban soldier walks away from heavy rooftop gunfire after his colleague was shot and mortally wounded. The Taliban were unaware they had been pulled into a massive trap by the Uzbek militia and lost nearly 800 soldiers after two days of fighting. May, 1997 Robert Nickelsberg  Men wash the body of a dead one-year-old, Abdullah, before a traditional Islamic burial. The baby died from exposure because the Taliban refused to allow UN aid and supplies to be delivered to internally displaced refugees. February, 2001 Robert Nickelsberg  Family and friends carry the one year old baby, Abdullah, to a nearby cemetery at the Mushlak IDP camp for burial. February, 2001 Robert Nickelsberg  Local residents and Taliban gaze at a group of foreign journalists crossing through a central market following ten days of US airstrikes on city of Kandahar. November, 2001 Robert Nickelsberg  A local Afghan shepherd in Chowkar Karez shouts to his children to lead their flock of goats over to him. He stands on a destroyed wall of a village 80 kms north of Kandahar bombed flat two weeks before by US jets. November, 2001 Robert Nickelsberg  Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massoud (center) meets with his advisors at one of his headquarters in Khwaja Bahauddin, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. June 2001 Robert Nickelsberg  Pakistani Taliban prisoners are interviewed after being captured outside of Kabul while fighting Northern Alliance troops. December, 2001 Robert Nickelsberg  U.S. Marine Corporal Gravenese patrols in Asadabad, Kunar province, 10 kms from the Pakistan border. The Kunar River flows in the background. January, 2004 Robert Nickelsberg  Three wounded US Army soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division who suffered shrapnel wounds to their eyes and foreheads are transported to a helicopter in Kamdesh, Nuristan. August, 2006 Robert Nickelsberg  Two Afghan National Police stand at an entry guard post at the district center in Qarabagh, Afghanistan located in Ghazni province. March, 2009 Robert Nickelsberg  A group of Shia men supporting a new family law, which stated that a wife shall fulfill the sexual desires of her husband, confront opponents of the measure in Kabul. April 2009 Robert Nickelsberg  US Army soldiers question members of a family about Taliban presence during a large aerial assault operation along the Pech River in Kunar province's Shuryak Valley. 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