The body of the executed Talib fighter lies sprawled across a dirt road. Behind him a barren mountain landscape stretches into infinite darkness. In the foreground, the man's life-blood runs out of him in a meandering silver river, to be swallowed by the parched earth. The setting is Afghanistan's Shamali plain in November, 2001. The context is the carnage accompanying the US-led rout of the Taliban after 9/11. And the black and white image, captured by photographer Seamus Murphy, speaks eloquently of the apparently endless violence, suffering and incomprehension, bordering on insanity, which continue to beset war-ravaged Afghanistan. An exhibition of Murphy's work from 1994 to the present, which opened at the Asia House gallery in London today, is a reminder that whenever things look like getting better in Afghanistan, they...
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