Shoe shop, Kabul, Afghanistan, 1992
The most common items for sale on this merchant’s stand are sports shoes. Hung by their laces, these symbols of Western culture take on a strange exotic otherness in the midst of the more traditional boots and shoes. The stall is in a small alleyway. The only light is from above. The even, diffuse light adds a further luminous quality to the shoes.
Magnum, NYC65349, MCS1992006 K231. AFGHN-12135NF
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Chidsu
A French language and Social Psyche graduate who's now working as a magazine's editor. Loves photography culture, traveling, observing people, and contemplating life.
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