Last year, the war in Afghanistan accounted for roughly two percent of the news content published in the United States. Razistan.org aims to help give Afghanistan the attention it demands. Our core project is a website of unique photo essays and short video documentaries that bring into vivid relief not only the war and its participants but also the country and its people. Contributors include both award-winning Kabul-based photojournalists from around the world and local Afghan photographers and videographers. There is much more to the war than the mainstream media has shown. The purpose of Razistan — or "land of secrets" — is to reveal these untold stories.

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LUKE MOGELSON (Editor) is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. Based in Kabul, Afghanistan, Mogelson has also worked for GQ, Harper's, The Nation, and The Washington Monthly. His fiction has appeared in the Hudson Review, Kenyon Review and Missouri Review. He may be reached at luke.mogelson@razistan.org

MARCOS BARBERY (Publisher) is the founder of Thread, Inc, an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit journalism platform based in New York City. Razistan is powered by Thread, which produces and publishes subject-driven outlets, multimedia projects, and documentaries. Barbery's work has been supported by the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, and syndicated and broadcast nationally. He may be reached at marcos.barbery@razistan.org
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PIETER TEN HOOPEN (Photo Editor) is a Swedish photographer who has worked for numerous international magazines and published two books. He has received the Memorial Mario Giacomelli Prize and three World Press Photo Awards. Pieter has also taught photojournalism in various Scandinavian schools.
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FOUNDING CONTRIBUTORS

SANDRA CALLIGARO is a French photographer who has been working in Afghanistan for five years. In addition to working for various European outlets, she has concentrated on a personal project — "Kabul, 10 Years After" — which has been exhibited at the French Institute of Afghanistan and at Confluences, in Paris.
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MIKHAIL GALUSTOV is a Georgian photographer who came to Kabul in 2009, prior to which he worked for Russia's largest daily newspaper, the Kommersant. His work has appeared in GQ, The New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, and elsewhere.
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JOEL VAN HOUDT is a Dutch photographer whose work has appeared in Der Spiegel, Stern, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. Last year, his multi-media project "Entering Europe," about a Moroccan who smuggles himself into Spain, won Best Picture at the Lead Academy.
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JAVIER MANZANO is a Mexican photographer and videographer who spent a year working on a documentary about war crimes in Afghanistan for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. His previous work chronicling Mexico's drug wars won a World Press Photo Award and an award from the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism in 2011.
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JONATHAN SARUK is an American Featured Photographer with Reportage by Getty Images and a graduate of the International Center of Photography in New York, where he was awarded a scholarship from The New York Times. Jonathan’s still images have been published in The New Yorker, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Times (London), and elsewhere.
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JAKE SIMKIN is an Australian photographer who has been working in Afghanistan for over four years. He is also a co-founder of Development Pictures.
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LORENZO TUGNOLI is an Italian photographer whose work has been published by The New York Times, Newsweek, Time Magazine, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere. He is currently working on a long-term project about a village in Nangarhar.
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FARDIN WAEZI has been the senior photographer to the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan for the past five years. He has had multiple exhibitions in Kabul at the French, Swiss, and Indian embassies and in the Queen's Palace of the Bagh-e-Babur Gardens. His work has been published in the New York Times, El Mundo, Der Spiegel, and elsewhere.
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JOHN WENDLE is an American journalist who writes and shoots for TIME Magazine. Before coming to Afghanistan in 2009, John reported for TIME in Moscow and covered the war between Russia and Georgia in 2008.
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