Christopher Kremmer

In the late 1990s I came across these Hazara militiamen on the hills  south of the former Soviet air base at Bagram, where they occupied a frontline position, facing off against the northern forces of Ahmad Shah Massoud.

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CREDIT Christopher Kremmer 1999

No body armour, no socks. Travelling on an armoured personnel carrier in Wardak Province, Afghanistan with Associated Press correspondent Earleen Fisher. The Moscow-backed Afghan government of President Najibullah arranged the trip in a dubious effort to demonstrate their control of the countryside, July 1991.  It was rumoured that Islamist forces could be paid to lay low for the purposes of their enemies' reputation.

 

CREDIT: Robert Adams

Solidarity on Red Square. In 1980 I travelled to Moscow, then capital of the Soviet Union, where I visited the home of the late comic genius Nikolai Gogol, attend a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet, and stayed at the majestic, but somewhat rundown Metropol Hotel. Tolstoy, Gogol, Pasternak and Ilya Ehrenburg are among my literary heroes.

 

CREDIT: Unknown

Dawn in Varanasi, India, where my life was transformed by a dip in the Ganga.

 

CREDIT: Christopher Kremmer (2004)

"It is the still eye in the typhoon of Indo-China's history" --Bamboo Palace. In Laos, the temple doors are decorated in gold. And in the former royal capital, Luang Prabang, the pace of life is slow (or used to be) Laos. 1995;

 

CREDIT: Felicity Volk

In the late 1990s I came across these Hazara militiamen on the hills  south of the former Soviet air base at Bagram, where they occupied a frontline position, facing off against the northern forces of Ahmad Shah Massoud.

​

CREDIT Christopher Kremmer 1999

No body armour, no socks. Travelling on an armoured personnel carrier in Wardak Province, Afghanistan with Associated Press correspondent Earleen Fisher. The Moscow-backed Afghan government of President Najibullah arranged the trip in a dubious effort to demonstrate their control of the countryside, July 1991.  It was rumoured that Islamist forces could be paid to lay low for the purposes of their enemies' reputation.

 

CREDIT: Robert Adams

Solidarity on Red Square. In 1980 I travelled to Moscow, then capital of the Soviet Union, where I visited the home of the late comic genius Nikolai Gogol, attend a performance of the Bolshoi Ballet, and stayed at the majestic, but somewhat rundown Metropol Hotel. Tolstoy, Gogol, Pasternak and Ilya Ehrenburg are among my literary heroes.

 

CREDIT: Unknown

Dawn in Varanasi, India, where my life was transformed by a dip in the Ganga.

 

CREDIT: Christopher Kremmer (2004)

"It is the still eye in the typhoon of Indo-China's history" --Bamboo Palace. In Laos, the temple doors are decorated in gold. And in the former royal capital, Luang Prabang, the pace of life is slow (or used to be) Laos. 1995;

 

CREDIT: Felicity Volk