A flag of the Emirate on a tree in Saihang Province.
Farmer Nahi Bullah, 23, in his pomegranate orchard in Arghandab Valley in Kandahar province. Many of his trees have almost died off due to drought in the past two years and are barely bearing fruit.
Four years old Mamina suffers from malnutrition in Bamyians provincial hospital.
A Taliban commander gives a speech for the victims of an earthquake in Paktika province.
Food market in Kandahar. Prices for food as oil and flour have risen massively due to economic crisis.
Female activist Munawara S. in her house in Kabul.
Men from Kabul's PD6 district wait for food packages of flour, beans and oil distributed by the World Food Program (WFP) in a former football stadium in the outskirts of the city.
Two children herd a flock of sheeps in Saihang Province.
Taliban fighters during ceremony of the Emirate on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul.
A Taliban fighter during a cerenomy of the Emirate on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul.
Two Taliban pray in the evening sun on Wazir Akbar Khan hill in Kabul.
Chalpavi and Adi Mohammed live with their four children next to the large fruit market in Kabul in a settlement for IDPs. They left their home in Parwan Province last year after Mohammed was hit by a grant shrapnel due to fighting between the Taliban and former government forces. A national crisis is unfolding in Afghanistan due to last year's drought and economic recession since the change of government.
Shepherd Mohamed with his flock in Saihan Province. Because there was a lack of snow and rain in the last two years, his animals find less and less grass on the bare mountains.
Women begging in front of a bakery in Kabul.
Rahim works in the lifestock trade on the Naqash-e market in Kabul. Lifestock dealers on Naqash-e market are currently only selling half as many animals as they were a year ago, for 20% less price. Rahim‘s business has been in decline for months, soon he will have to stop trading.
Men wait outside of the Central Bank in Kabul for withdrawing money. In cause of the sanctions Afghans are currently only able to withdraw an equivalent of 100$ per week, often waiting in lines for hours, sometimes even the night before. A national crisis is unfolding in Afghanistan due to last year's drought and economic recession since the change of government.
Mullah Abdullah Sarhadi, currently governor of Bamyan Province, held the same position during the first Taliban government in the 1990s. According to reports from Human Rights Watch, he was involved in a series of massacres of Hazaras and Shi‘ite minorities that killed several hundred people.
Women with her children in the malnutrition ward of the Indira Ghandi Hospital in Kabul.
Shahabeddin, 17, from Kunduz stands at the bus station of the company area in Kabul. After trying several times to cross the border from Afghanistan to Iran in Nimruz, he had to return to his home province. „I used all my savings and now I can‘t travel further. But as long as I am in this country, I dare not dream or have any hope for my future.“
One-year-old Mohamed in the malnutrition ward of the Indira Ghandi Hospital in Kabul.
Afghans line to leave the country trough Spin Boldaks border crossing to Pakistan.
Potato farmer Mohamed in Bamiyan. His harvest was less than half in comparison to the previous year due to drought in the summer and less snow in the winter.
The Kabul-Kandahar expressway was supposed to win the hearts and minds of Afghans. Today, it is littered with dents and holes from IEDs, every few hundred meters.