First steps in literacy: A young girl discovers the alphabets.

An elderly shopkeeper.

Looking out of the window.

A nomad girl.

At the shop, after school.

An elderly man, by the river in his car.

Helping his father sell pomegranates.

Too old for the fields, too poor to rest.

A girl memorizing the Holy Quran.

Young Afghan girls, dreaming of better future.

An Afghan police officer.

Young siblings reading a letter.

A lifetime stories etched in every line.

Girls in Kandahar, preparing for exam at school.

A local fruit seller.

A quiet smile, a hopeful future.