Mind-bending photos by anonymous cousins show the pain and dreams of Afghan women

This photo, from a series of pictures by two anonymous cousins, is entitled “The Music of Poverty and Violence.” The subject is playing an automatic weapon as if it were a string instrument. Mahnaz Ebrahimi|January 2026

Mahnaz Ebrahimi|January 2026

Do these photos depict fiction or reality … or both?

A bicyclist whose dark, flowing burka enfolds her body from head to ankles sits with hands perched on the handlebar, seemingly undaunted by the meshed veil

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