11/7/2023 0 Comments Omer khan instah![]() ![]() ![]() Yeah, so whenever I become free I just take my camera and walking sometimes in the beach, taking pictures. It makes me feel free, makes me feel comfort to do photography. The main reason I still do photography is because it is my passion and I love it. Q: What catches your eye/inspires your photography since arriving in San Diego?Ī: Whenever I become free from work, I do street photography. I published a photo book in 2019 by the name of “Hidden Treasure” and I published that photo book because I want to show the positive side of Afghanistan to the world. All the world, the media of Afghanistan and that made me to photograph positive side of Afghanistan. Then, I started photography, but since I saw the people that they feature of Afghanistan, I saw they just have bad in the media for Afghanistan. I love arts, and when I joined the of journalism, the first semester of university I read about a camera and photography that made me inspired and become in love with the camera. What inspired your photography when you were taking pictures back home?Ī: My background was I was a calligrapher myself. ![]() Q: Before leaving Afghanistan in 2021 when the Taliban resumed power, you had worked as a photographer at television stations and nongovernmental organizations. I present my photos over there and some of my work over there. there was a refugee festival by the name of the One Journey Festival. This last June, I went to Washington, D.C. Right now, there are maybe around 20 photos. Then, we arrange an exhibit at the El Cajon Library. One of my friends, she worked at the Oceanside library, also she saw my interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune and she asked me if it’s possible to exhibit my photos. Embassy in Afghanistan back in 2015 to 2021, they know me and I have lots of contact with them. Lots of my American friends that I was working at the U.S. Since I moved to U.S., I’m trying to get exhibition in U.S. These are all positive pictures of Afghanistan because people always see and hear Afghanistan by the name of war in the country and they didn’t have any good image from Afghanistan. These are the photos from Afghanistan - the positive side of Afghanistan, the landscape from Afghanistan, the smiley faces of people of Afghanistan, the national sport of Afghanistan. Now, we are showing these photos at the El Cajon Library. Q: What images will people see if they visit your current photography exhibition at the El Cajon Library?Ī: These are photographs from Afghanistan that I first present at the Oceanside library. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.) Khan’s quotes have been edited to maintain the way that he spoke during our interview as a non-native English speaker. He took some time to talk about his photography, sharing an often unseen side of his home country, and the kind of life he would like to build in America. Although the couple was working at a local Subway, they moved to Dallas in April for a job he found as a sound technician with an event production company their plan is to return to San Diego in October. 30, Khan says that he, his wife and their 3-year-old son were granted permanent resident status this past June. Initially here on humanitarian parole, which provides two years of benefits to Afghan nationals set to expire Sept. Among the tens of thousands of refugees who left the country, they settled in San Diego where he began exhibiting images from his self-published 2019 book, “Hidden Treasure,” which he created “to show the positive side of Afghanistan to the world.” Previously on display in Oceanside, where he also answered questions about his home country and his work there, about 20 of the 250 pictures from his book are currently on display at the El Cajon Library through Wednesday. troops withdrew and the Taliban resumed power. In 2021, he and his wife, son, and brother evacuated on a military flight after U.S. Omer Khan is a photojournalist who was born and raised in Kabul, earning a journalism degree there and selling some of his photography out of a space at the U.S. The difference is that they were all taken in Afghanistan. There are familiar images: a man selling balloons, kids flying a kite, the passion captured in the throes of playing the national pastime, people walking past a religious place of worship, or a group of children excitedly scrambling to look at the digital images a photographer just took of them. ![]()
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