Photojournalist Challenges Stereotypes in New Book on Taliban Family Life

Award-winning photographer Elise Blanchard’s upcoming book “In the House of a Taliban” offers an intimate look at a Taliban member’s household, emphasizing Afghan women’s agency rather than portraying them solely as victims.

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'Complex' world of Taliban home: Wife embraces Taliban 'brothers', asserts women's right to freedom

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Elise Blanchard, award-winning photojournalist and author of “Dans la Maison d’un Taliban” (In the House of a Taliban). Blanchard’s work challenges narratives that reduce Afghan women to passive victims. Drawing on rare access to a Taliban household, she describes a social landscape shaped by profound contradictions. In drought-stricken Badghis province, Blanchard traces child marriage through a chain of material pressures exacerbated by climate change. Gender...

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