It Can Never Be the Same by Lorenzo Tugnoli - ISBN: 9781805980025
Hardcover
Afghanistan revealed: A decade of upheaval, forever changed, seen through new eyes.

It Can Never Be the Same

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  • Hardcover

    116 pages

  • Release Date

    14 September 2025

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Summary

The images depict a country in upheaval, as experienced by a foreign photographer who has spent over a decade navigating its complexities.

‘Afghanistan resists foreign understanding, and its image has been repeatedly appropriated and reshaped by the empires that have occupied it over the centuries. Misunderstandings arise not only from the difficulty of accessing the country’s many layers of meaning but also from a tendency on our part, as journalists, to simplify and misrepresent. Th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781805980025
ISBN-10:1805980025
Author:Lorenzo Tugnoli
Publisher:GOST Books
Imprint:GOST Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:116
Release Date:14 September 2025
Weight:944g
Dimensions:307mm x 245mm x 20mm
About The Author

Lorenzo Tugnoli

Lorenzo Tugnoli is an Italian photographer based in Barcelona, who covers the Middle East and Central Asia. He lived in Afghanistan for six years from 2009 to 2015 and has since travelled back regularly to continue his coverage of the country. He is a contract photographer for The Washington Post and his work has appeared on The New Yorker, Time Magazine, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among others. He is the 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography. His work was awarded three times by the World Press Photo as well as the first prize at the Bayeux Calvados photo trophy.

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