Adnan was the reporter for Vice’s Point Blank: Afghanistan documentary filmed a few months before the US pulled out and the country fell to the Taliban in 2021 after which he drove back in from Uzbekistan and spent two years reporting on the armed group, women’s rights, earthquakes and internally displaced people. He was the second camera and field support for the Emmy award-winning and BAFTA nominated documentary Escape from Kabul for HBO/BBC, the producer for the BAFTA nominated Marine A, War and Justice on a Royal Marine shooting an unarmed Taliban fighter for Channel 4. He wrote essays for the Financial Times and provided photography. Images from the second anniversary of Kabul falling were used by the BBC, those of addicts giving heroin to dogs by the Daily Mail. He wrote the Afghanistan Field Guide to help visitors to the country.

Essays

2022, We may not agree with the Taliban but we should help Afghanistan, Financial Times

2021, Among the Taliban: a journey through Afghanistan, Financial Times

2015, Martyrs, flowers and warrior poets —on the poetry of the Taliban, Financial Times

Diary

A diary from 2021 to present from Afghanistan on Substack, here.

Photos

More photography on Instagram, here.