AFGHAN LIFE, AS USUAL

Foreign Policy has published a fine slideshow of pictures taken by teenagers in Kabul. These images are full of small pleasures, mundane exchanges and devilish smiles. They add depth and richness to a landscape otherwise viewed as a military map. In their ordinary humanity, they make life in Afghanistan less abstract, and remind us all of what's at stake.

The students of Afghanistan's Marefat School worked in partnership with picture-taking teenagers from Philadelphia's Constitution High School. An exhibition with work from both schools, “Being ‘We the People’: Afghanistan, America and the Minority Imprint”, is on display through September at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center and the National Museum of Afghanistan. An online component that launches later this summer will allow visitors to comment and make their own photo pairings (see www.constitutioncenter.org).