12/21/2023 0 Comments Omer khan auis![]() ![]() Now, we are showing these photos at the El Cajon Library. Q: What images will people see if they visit your current photography exhibition at the El Cajon Library?Ī: These are photographs from Afghanistan that I first present at the Oceanside library. (This interview has been edited for length and clarity.) Khan’s quotes have been edited to maintain the way that he spoke during our interview as a non-native English speaker. He took some time to talk about his photography, sharing an often unseen side of his home country, and the kind of life he would like to build in America. Although the couple was working at a local Subway, they moved to Dallas in April for a job he found as a sound technician with an event production company their plan is to return to San Diego in October. 30, Khan says that he, his wife and their 3-year-old son were granted permanent resident status this past June. Initially here on humanitarian parole, which provides two years of benefits to Afghan nationals set to expire Sept. Among the tens of thousands of refugees who left the country, they settled in San Diego where he began exhibiting images from his self-published 2019 book, “Hidden Treasure,” which he created “to show the positive side of Afghanistan to the world.” Previously on display in Oceanside, where he also answered questions about his home country and his work there, about 20 of the 250 pictures from his book are currently on display at the El Cajon Library through Wednesday. troops withdrew and the Taliban resumed power. ![]() In 2021, he and his wife, son, and brother evacuated on a military flight after U.S. Omer Khan is a photojournalist who was born and raised in Kabul, earning a journalism degree there and selling some of his photography out of a space at the U.S. The difference is that they were all taken in Afghanistan. There are familiar images: a man selling balloons, kids flying a kite, the passion captured in the throes of playing the national pastime, people walking past a religious place of worship, or a group of children excitedly scrambling to look at the digital images a photographer just took of them. ![]()
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