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Afghan refugee family - Baluchistan Overland 1985

During the devastating Soviet war against Afghanistan hundreds of thousands of tribal Afghan Baluchis fled to Baluchistan - the wild west of Pakistan.

 

I was traveling overland in the summer 1985 and visited one refugee village near Quetta with a local friend who helped me to interview and photograph some of the families.

 

The picture was originally photographed on slide film with my Nikon FE2 camera and 50 mm lens. I photographed the slide bracketing it with a Nikon D850 camera and enhanced the picture in Lightroom, Photoshop, and Topaz.

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Uploaded on December 15, 2023
Taken on August 15, 1985