These beautiful children were accompanying their Grandfather one pleasant afternoon in Gereshk. The grandfather was gracious to pose with me and this brood later as well, but this image captures both the haunting beauty and the desperate plight of so many of the children in Afghanistan. They just break your heart.
Another young man tending the shop – this time a butcher shop selling extremely fresh meat – in Marjeh.
I saw this little guy being yanked back out of the path of oncoming traffic along the main street in northern Marjeh one hot afternoon. Scared me to death. The afghan military officer who grabbed him in the nick of time smacked him on the back of the head, just to drive the lesson home. [...]
I met this little fellow in a tractor repair shop in northern Marjeh.
Kids follow you around in these villages hoping you will take their photograph.
One of many little guys who staff the produce shops for their fathers in Marjeh.
Grabbed this shot of Major Jimmison kicking a soccer ball around with a local boy walking around the compound in Marjeh.
Yours truly riding in the back of a Hum-V with the Iraqi Army in the summer of 2007.
Tearful greeting. My house in the St. Louis area.
Turn-of-the-century clown re-enactor – St. Charles, MO.
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