The cliff where once stood the two giant Buddhas of Bamyan is photographed at night from a nearby hill by the homonymous town, in central Afghanistan.

Fatemah, 12, is walking out of the cave where she has lived with her family for the last seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan.

Maryam, 38, (left) is sitting near the wood stove inside her family cave along two of her young daughters, Halemah, 9, (centre) and Hamidah, 6, (right) during the late afternoon hours when it is too cold to be spending time outside, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan.

Maryam, 38, (centre) is lighting the family’s wood stove inside their cave while, Hamidah, 6, (left) and her sister Fatemah, 12, (right) are awaiting for tea in the early hours of the morning, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan.

Fatemah, 12, is blowing in her hands to warm up in the early hours of a cold winter morning in the cave where her family have lived for the last seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan.

Kobra, 17, is tearing while taking care of the fire due to the heavy smoke filling the cave where she has lived with her husband for the last seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan.

Halemah, 9, is running after her family’s donkey on the way to collect water downhill. Halemah has lived in the caves with her family for the last seven years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan.

Children are playing in front of an inhabited section of the cliff where once stood the two giant Buddhas of Bamyan, in central Afghanistan.

A woman and her son are walking along the bazaar in the centre of Bamyan, central Afghanistan, an area mostly populated by Hazaras.

Monirah, 7, (Left) and her brother Najibullah, 3, (Right) are sitting in the cave where their family have lived for the last six years, in Bamyan, central Afghanistan.

Ms Habiba Sarabi, 54, the Governor of Bamyan Province, is portrayed while sitting at her desk. In 2005, she was appointed as Governor by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, becoming the first and only woman to ever reach such position in the country.

Villages are photographed from the air while travelling over the Hindu Kush between Kabul and Bamyan, in central Afghanistan.

Open Wounds: Bhopal 1984-2009 - by Alex Masi - www.alexmasi.co.uk - All Rights Reserved

A lone girl is refreshing under the late monsoon rain in the impoverished Oriya Basti Colony in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, near the former Union Carbide industrial complex. When the heavy monsoon rain falls every year, it seeps through the buried waste of Union Carbide before proceeding to fill up and pollute Bhopal's underground reservoirs.