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Where is Afghanistan ? “With this exhibition, I hope to raise more questions and awareness of the predicament of the people of Afghanistan, and perhaps inspire a new search to find some answers. “ Babak Salari
	No sooner than the moment of my arrival, I realized that the experience awaiting me, in Afghanistan, would exceed all my expectations. Even at the first sight, one could witness the abject misery of human condition. Everyday, I felt deep in my soul, the burnt of Afgans unimaginable torment, and every moment, I saw my experience reduced to sheer anguish. During the month ( March 2002) along side Médecins du Monde, I felt a sense of horrific helplessness, of which I had no previous experience. With heartfelt awareness of the gravity of my subject matter, I tried to capture the suffering of women and orphaned children. Through my lens, I struggled to document the despair of an entire society destroyed by over decades of war. At the end of my journey to Afghanistan, I can only hope that this body of work opens a window to the lives of those devastated by injustice and violence. For the multitude of people whose voicelessness has rendered their agony mute and their ordeal silent, these photos are but a small contribution to bring us closer to them.
“Where is Afghanistan?” is a photo exhibition by Iranian-Canadian photographer Babak Salari, with the participation of three volunteers of Médecins du Monde Canada, Catherine Savoie, Zoé Brabant and Gligor Delev, who have worked in Afghanistan in the past several year “Where is Afganistan?” a photo-documentary, is the result of Babak Salari’s trip to that country three months after the invasion of October 2001 by the US-led coalition. This project was partially financed by the Montreal-based NGO, Médecins Du Monde Canada, to document their mission in providing medical care to Nimrooz, a Southwest province in Afghanistan.
	Although seven years old, this project is still relevant as the dire situation in Afghanistan has hardly improved in the passing years. The on-going misery, helplessness, violence and chaos that Afghan people undergo everyday in their lives are testimony to this dark conclusion. To be realistic, one would even be tempted to say that in the past two years the situation has worsened and Afghanistan has seen the resurgence of Taliban, with their threat to peace and livelihood of people being very palpable nowadays. One would have few positive results to show for the invasion and subsequent occupation of that country.

Babak Salari : : Biography Babak Salari is a Montreal-based photographer and educator who chronicles lives at the margins of society. His documentary projects include: Iranian artists in exile, matriarchal, indigenous communities in Mexico, and gays and transvestites in Cuba. Recently, he has documented those displaced and brutalized by war in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Palestine. His interest in photography began as a teenager in his native Iran where he contributed to various publications. At 21 his political activities resulted in his imprisonment for six months by the Khomeini regime. He then fled to Pakistan, arrived in Canada a year later and resumed his study and practice of photography. His new multimedia work "Colour of my Dreams," examines death, exile and love.
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