Zabardast Afghanistan!

• Prize
  Bronze in People/Culture
• Photographer
  Gilberto Maltinti
• Agency / Studio
  Parioli Fotografia
• Technical Info
  Digital Photo
• Photo Date
  17/09/1967

It is a photo voyage through the Whakan Corridor, between Tajikistan, Pakistan and China. Unknown to the rest of the world for years, inhabited by a few thousand shepherds and nomads, is now on the gaming table of interests between the Taliban and China. There are different cultures, rites and languages - belonging to clans and tribes of Whaki shepherds, Kuch nomads, Tajik, Kyrgyz and Pamira tribes, mostly of Aryan stock, Nazarites of Muslim-Shiite Ismaili religion. The daily tranquility was shattered in August 2021 by the uncompromising wave of the Taliban Sahara and Chinese investments