Afghanistan, October. 2003

Jacob Ehrbahn

Politiken

In the belief that it will spare them from their sufferings, mentally ill people are chained to the trees on a cemetery outside the Afghan city of Jalalabad. 40 days they spend on the cemetery living on water, bread, green tea, black pepper and cigarettes. The boy on the picture is 16 years old and he became mentally ill from a fever he caught at the age of 14.

Jacob Ehrbahn, "Afghanistan, October. 2003," in POYi Archive, Item #34407, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/34407 (accessed November 23, 2024).