Afghanistan: A Distant War

An Afghan shepherd beckons his children.

TIME magazine photographer Robert Nickelsberg has documented Afghanistan since 1988, when he accompanied a group of mujahedeen crossing the border from Pakistan. He has worked as a TIME Magazine contract photographer for nearly thirty years, specializing in political and cultural change in developing countries.

His work has appeared in publications and broadcasts that include TIME, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and many more.

His photographs have been exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, and at the New America Foundation in New York.

His current remarkable exhibition of photographs, Afghanistan: A Distant War, will be on display at the QCC Art Gallery from June 19 until September 10, 2014. It is composed of stark images, accompanied by Nickelsberg’s own extensive first-hand commentary regarding the time, the place and the issues depicted.