{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"We Think We Know","title":"9 Years Inside Afghanistan: The War Photographer Who Stayed","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3593,"description":"Why don't war photos shock us anymore? Andrew Quilty spent 9 years as a photojournalist in Afghanistan: photographing the Taliban, the war, and the day Kabul fell and he has an answer. In this episode, we get into how the images on your feed shape what you believe about war, why you feel less every time you scroll, and what nine years behind the camera taught him about what a single photo can and can't do.\nAndrew is the first photographer ever to win the Gold Walkley for his image inside the US-bombed MSF hospital in Kunduz. He's the author of August in Kabul and is currently a witness in a war crimes trial.\nIn this episode, he explains:\n■ The Checklist in Your Head: Why he arrived in Afghanistan with a superficial list of images (burqas, poverty, violence), how it changed as he came to understand the place, and why he chose not to push to photograph women in private homes.\n■ The Camera as a Shield: Why he calls his camera a shield from fear and trauma, why it never made him feel safe from harm, and how walking towards danger feels from the inside.\n■ Can One Photo Change the World? Why we remember only a handful of images, why people read photographs through their own worldview, and why context matters.\n■ Who Shapes the Story: How the editors and institutions behind publications influence what we see, what independent media gains and loses without guardrails, and what social media does to our appetite for the dramatic.\n■ The Kunduz Hospital: How he got into the city, what he found, and why tracking down the man’s family gave an anonymous image a human story.\n■ Kabul Falls: What the final days looked like from inside the city, what he feared and didn’t, and why he says “it’s complicated” is the one thing to hold in mind whenever you see a war image online.\nThis episode discusses war, violence and death.\n00:19 What Do Photojournalists Want From a Photo?\n 02:32 The Checklist: What He Expected to Photograph\n 05:15 How Afghans and the Taliban Treated Him\n 09:56 When...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fqgwq7RLVs9N5Y-RdApZsEWFGm9kndYxvGWCLGKGuqA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MmRl/ZjQ3MzAxZDcyMDc0/MWY3ZjFkN2I0ZWEy/NDY1My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}