DELTA GEOGRAPHIC

Beb C. Reynolphotographer

Afghanistan/Forced Destiny

Hazaras in quest for work, Bamian province, Afghanistan.

Freelance photographer, Seattle, New York, Paris. Available for assignments worldwide. If you are interested in licensing images, commissioning a project, or collaborating with an NGO, please contact us with your specific requirements.

Profile

Beb C. Reynol (b.1966) is a documentary photographer working for social change. His objectives are to work in favor of population confronted to exclusion and censorship. He concentrated his work in South and Central Asia, crossing borders that separate Pakistan from Afghanistan.

In 1999, Beb spent months dividing his time between Peshawar and the Swat valleys, where he discovered the ethnic tribe of the Pashtuns. Fascinated by this culture's hospitality and pride, he returned several times to the valley to live with a pro-Taliban family, documenting lives across remote and isolated mountainous villages. Beb also had the incredible opportunity to interview Mullahs inside madressas, repeatedly crossing the border into Afghanistan through the Hindu Kush, on foot.

While in Afghanistan from 2003 through 2005, Beb worked along Afghan photojournalists for AINA Media, a French NGO working on contributing to the reconstruction of freedom of expression through education and independent media development. He trained, coordinated and assisted the local photographers in training with a UNICEF anti-child-labor marketing photo project. He divided his time between supervising the students' post-production work and producing a documentary of his own called Forced Destiny. This photo documentary garnered him international media attention, including being featured in a Canadian national broadcasting television program for Radio-Canada and led to being awarded several high-profile grants.

Regardless of the resurgence of the Taliban influence among the Pashtuns, Beb made friends and invaluable contacts across borders, where he was granted unprecedented access to volatile locations, all the while discovering a unique generosity from indigenous tribes throughout the Hindu Kush.

Projected Images

Delta Geographic is a photographic channel which, in all great honesty, aims to reflect on what is going on around the world today. Beb C. Reynol is a photojournalist working as a freelance. His work has been broadcast by the World Picture News (WPN).

Beb has been a resourceful aid to many internationally bound photographers about his approach while sharing his experience through lectures, workshops and portfolio consulting. Through Delta Geographic, Beb leads guided photographic missions into Pakistan and Afghanistan for photographers eager to see beyond the possible. Contact us.

Delta Geographic Expeditions

Photographic Expeditions

We work to educate and inspire social change. Our photographic projects raise awareness on population confronted to exclusion, censure and cultural change while promoting guided missions to Afghanistan and Pakistan for photographers.

You are a photographer and you are interested in going to exclusive locations in Afghanistan or Pakistan? You want to explore and meet with remote ethnic groups and villages along the silk route from Pakistan to Afghanistan?

Contact


206.356.2983
bebreynol@yahoo.com

bebreynol@yahoo.com