Friday, July 14, 2006

Burqa's Eye View

Sara Terry, gives a perspective from inside a Burqa in Afghanistan using her cell phone camera. From her Backstory article in the Christian Science Monitor:
As odd as it may sound, I thought that a burqa might be the answer to my problems. Here on a five-week assignment to shoot photos for a humanitarian organization, I was dismayed to realize that I wasn't going to be able to move freely. There was a standing threat against Western women working for aid organizations - prime targets for kidnapping and sale to the Taliban. Understandably enough, the organization restricted my movements, rarely allowing me out on the street unless I was in a car - and never allowing me to go anywhere alone.
Read the entire article here.

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