Herat, Afghanistan.

People of Herat.

People of Herat.

Pic taken by Osman Khayyam.

People of Herat: An elderly man in his plastic selling shop.

Photo by Morteza Herati.

People of Herat: old men chatting and having a good time.

Photo by Osman Khayyam.

People of Herat: portrait of a girl.

People of Herat: A teenage boy cycling down the Malan Bridge ("Pul-e Malan") constructed on the Hari Rud river.

Photo by Hossein Hosseini.

People of Herat.

Photo by Osman Khayyam.

People of Herat.

I met this man in 2013 at Khwajah Abdullah Ansar´s shrine.

People of Herat.

Photo by Ludo Kuipers, 1973.

People of Herat.

Photo by Osman Khayyam.

People of Herat.

Photo by Osman Khayyam.

People of Herat: Elderly men sit in a old restaurant.

Photo by: Morteza Herati

People of Herat: Teenage brothers practicing shooting and playing with rifles in a park.

Photo by Morteza Herati.

People of Herat: wheelbarrow men waiting for work.

Unknown artist.

People of Herat: young students on their way to school.

Unknown artist.

People of Herat: an old man at Khwaja Abdullah´s Shrine.

Unknown artist.

People of Herat.

Photo taken by Osman Khayyam.

People of Herat: A young man at an old caravanserai.

Unknown artist.

People of Dushanbe: Picture of the great Tajik wrestler Muso Isaev. Powerful Iranic features.

Unknown artist.

People of Samarkand: An ethnic Tajik melon-seller.

Taken by Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii in 1910.

People of Herat: Two friends having a good time at Taraqi Park.

Pic taken in 2015 unfortunately I ignore author´s name.

People of Herat: Portrait of a girl.

Picture taken by Osman Khayyam.

People of Mazar: A "chapandaz" (Buzkashi player) taking an award.

Got this picture saved in my computer for years. Can not say who took it and when, but this pic must be at least 50 years old.

People of Nangarhar: Iconic picture of Sharbat Gula, the Pashtun girl.

Picture taken by Steve McCurry for National Geographic, 1984.

People of Herat: Old men eating grapes with bread.

Picture taken by Morteza Herati.

People of the North: A Buzkashi Game. Somewhere in northern Afghanistan.

Pictures taken by Max Bucherer.

People of Mazar: An Afghan Malang/Dervish taken in Mazar-e Sharif in 1968. Most likely an ethnic Pashtun.

"L'Orient de Sabrina et Roland Michaud : Malang à Mazar-i-Sherif"

People of Bukhara: Two Bukharan Jewish girls in Samarkand, ca 1900.

Unknown photographer.

People of Badghis: A 12-year-old girl holds her baby sister outside a nutrition centre in a camp for internally displaced people near the city of Herat. The two girls came here with their family to escape fighting in their home province of Badghis.

Picture taken by Mr Husseini.

People of Herat: An old man at the mosque.

Picture taken by Osman Khayyam.

People of Herat: A group of girls playing in a courtyard.

Picture taken by Osman Khayyam.

I love this picture. Reminds me of my grandfather´s house.

People of Bukhara: A young couple in traditional attire.

Unknown artist.

People of Bukhara: A lovely old couple.

Unknown artist.

People of Mazar: Two old friends chatting.

Unknown artist.

People of Herat: An old man reading the Quran at "Shahzada Abdul Qasim" mausoleum.

Unknown artist.

People of Panjshir: A random man with some very interesting facial features.

Photo by Roya Heydari.

People of Panjshir: Some Afghan girls from an orphanage run by Mrs Mahboba Rawi.

Picture by Linda Cassidy.

After 40 years of war and destruction, Afghanistan has been left with a terrible legacy of over 1,6 million orphans. Make sure to help them if you can.

People of Badakhshan: A group of Tajik Taliban praying after dropping their weapons and joining the Afghan government.

Photo: Mohammad Sharif Shayeq.

People of Samarkand: Random old Tajik men.

We Tajiks have thousand faces but one same soul.

People of Kabul: Bookseller.

Photo by Kaveh Kazemi.