Images from War Gardens by Lalage Snow
Photo: Lalage Snow
Freelance photojournalist, writer and filmmaker, Lalage Snow has worked in some of the most war torn and damaged places on earth. Whilst working in Afghanistan she came across amazing people putting their green fingers to good use in the conflict ridden country.
Jolyon Leslie in his garden, Kabul 2012.
Badria with onions on the edge of her allotment garden in Beit Hanoun, Gaza,
April 2013.
Ibrahim Jeradda MBE, custodian of the Commonwealth Gaza War Cemetery, April
2013.
Huda with a lime in her garden in Gaza City, April 2013.
Teenager Esra Ahmad in her father’s hydroponic rooftop garden, Gaza city, April
2013. ‘I feel free up here.’
Naif Dubaily, a shop keeper, standing in his beloved garden, April 2013 – the
first thing he rebuilt after his house and land were destroyed in Operation Cast
Lead, 2009.
Esti, Kfar Azar Kibbutz, 2013.
Mirwais Khan in his orchard, Nad-e-Ali, Helmand, April 2014.
Mohammed Hammud in his garden in Qalindiya refugee camp, April 2016. His
house and garden were set for demolition as punitive action for his son’s crimes
against the IDF.
Articles and an exhibition about the lives of those she met followed and now her first book, War Gardens, A journey through Conflict in Search of Calm. She joins Kathryn to talk about the gardens, gardeners and her own journey to find them.
