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Mariam

Photographer/Translator

My father was a big hand behind my success. He always believed in me and encouraged me.

I loved Mariam. We both enjoy travel and photography. I felt sorry to leave Afghanistan because it would have been fun to be friends and hang out with her. I could easily imagine adventures we could have had and photographs we could have taken… We did go on one photo excursion to the Kabul bird market – more on that later.

Mariam was born in Kabul and lived there until she was nine. Sometimes when she was a little girl, she and her older brother worked with her father in his shop, making tin wood-burning heaters. When the civil war came, her family escaped to Pakistan where she finished school. When the Taliban fell, the family returned to Kabul, where she found employment as a public relations assistant. Several years ago she went to the Netherlands for training, and later to India for two months to study photography. Now she travels all over Afghanistan with foreigners as a freelance photographer and translator and is the marketing manager for a printing company.