Woman’s day special edition, Shamsia Hassani
Shamsia Hassani and her friend and fellow artist Qasem Foushanji are Afghanistan’s first street artists who use graffiti to chronicle violence and oppression.
The female-male duo surreptitiously spray-paint the crumbling and dilapidated walls of buildings in the capital Kabul, abandoned and destroyed during 30 years of war that still rages today.
Talking of her woman on the steps, Shamsia Hassani, 24, said: “She is wondering if she can get up, or if she will fall down. Women in Afghanistan need to be careful with every step they take.”
The austere rule of the Taliban frowned upon painting and banned images depicting peoples’ faces, saying it was un-Islamic. They banned cinema, music and theatre outright.
Both Hassani and Foushanji said that stigma translates into harassment and disapproval from government officials. And like graffiti artists in other countries, they face attempts to stop them spray-painting public buildings.
Via dawn.com
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Hipstawar
Hipster filters; Olga and Diana and Toy Cameras wannabes super imposed on war pictures. The faux-ravaged effects on top of vrai-ravaged people, places and things.
Teru Kuwayama and Balazs Gardi embedded themselves in one of the marine battalions sent to Afghanistan on early 2011. Using Hipstamatic, they recorded their time in the war that started 10 years ago. We see the clash between the cool filters for rich kids with trendy phones and people who deal with death and violence every day.
Instead of parties in Brooklyn, gathering refugees around food aid trucks.
Instead of an indie chick doing an empty and misplaced peace sign, a ten-year-old who has lived as a refugee for 4 years.
The war presented in the language of the self-absorbed generation.
The whole expedition can be seen at Basetrack. TL;DR version on Flickr.
guest post by gui machiavelli / via Foreign Policy
This entry was written by , posted on January 9, 2012 at 1:56 pm, filed under Digitalization, Information Wars, Political glam. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
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We’re blown away by the Metahaven for Wikileaks shirts and scarves.
This entry was written by , posted on December 13, 2011 at 3:29 pm, filed under Fashion, Friends, Graphic design, Information Wars, Internet, Political glam. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.