Operation Enduring Freedom

It is always easier to go to war than to return to peace. A Photographer’s Diary, October–November 2001

The Northern Alliance. The beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom in Northern Afghanistan, October, 2001. Photo by Oleg Klimov

In October 2001, a few weeks after the attacks of September 11, I traveled to Afghanistan as a freelance photographer together with Dutch correspondent of the newspaper NRC-Handelsblad. It was the beginning of what would be call…