Brief 1 / Projection (1) – Annotated Bibliography Draft

1- https://8am.media/eng/photography-and-filming-banned-taliban-turn-afghanistan-into-a-nation-without-images-or-voices/

“Local Afghan journalists, citing increasing pressure, claim that the Taliban aim to turn Afghanistan into a country devoid of images and voices.”

Quite interesting, reminds me of Noon Meem Rashid’s poetry

“The Taliban argue that the ban falls under their “Law for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” and is being enforced gradually.”

Could do something about this term: “Law…..Vice” in a typographic kinda way

“An intelligence representative emphasized that visual media should be replaced with radio broadcasts. The head of the Taliban’s Directorate for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Takhar had previously prohibited photography and videography at local officials’ meetings and banned visual interviews with them. He instructed local officials and employees to submit reports only in written or audio form.”

So essentially…no visuals..just audio or written. What if i do something with ascii and make visuals as resistance

“Senior Taliban officials continue to use social media, sharing photos, and videos, and appearing on visual media, including international televised interviews”

The irony…what can I do about it?

“Afghan journalists fear that the Taliban’s actions are turning Afghanistan into a “land without images or voices,” and soon, citizens may not even keep personal photos on their phones. Under this law, the Taliban have directed citizens not to take or view images of living beings on phones or other devices.

They see this as part of the Taliban’s systematic suppression, aimed at preventing any visual or auditory evidence of Afghanistan’s realities from reaching the outside world.”

The word “a land without images or voice” is quite interesting…and people not being able to keep images in phones,,,so no archives. What I can do to represent this emotion?

Reminds of how Neelum Appa burnt my childhood pictures – saying it was unIslamic. How does that reflect on Pukhtuns as a society?

“In a recent incident, Taliban Morality Police in Badakhshan province raided a wedding for playing music and recording videos, injuring a girl and an elderly man, and fining the groom approximately 30,000 Afghanis.”

So no celebrations with recording and auditory output as well?

“A journalist in Ghazni province told AFP that visual media reporters in the area have been instructed to take photos from a distance and gradually reduce filming.”

see if this can gradually contribute to the making

“Since 2021, the Taliban have ordered business owners to deface images of men and women in advertisements, cover mannequin heads with plastic bags, and blur the eyes of fish on restaurant menus.”

can definitely make its way into the visual demonstrations I do….or perhaps the whole publcation can be defaced and called….”A land without images”

2- https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-taliban-ban-photos-videos-islam/33163962.html

“Now, the country has become the first to outlaw any depictions of living things, including humans and animals.

Under its radical interpretation, the Taliban has cut off the heads of mannequins, prohibited the sale of dolls, and covered or taken down statues in recent years.

Now, the Taliban has expanded the ban on idolatry to include the “production and watching of videos and photos of living things on computers and mobile phones.” The ban is limited to images of things with souls — meaning people and animals.”

Could play around with animals found in Afghanistan as well. And the fact that fishes are defaced as well. And, use dolls, mannequins, statues in the visual diary as well.

3- https://rukhshana.com/en/taliban-launch-crackdown-on-afghanistans-secret-beauty-salons/

“The Taliban have issued an order targeting underground beauty salons operating in secret across Afghanistan, warning the women running them that they have to stop or face arrest.”

Could add to the list of dolls, fishes etc as things that have been banned

“Frestha, a 38-year-old mother of three young children, said she had been operating her beauty salon business in secret since they were banned in 2023 because she had no choice but to work and no other way of earning money.”