Nick Danziger exhibition

Just read that the travel writer Nick Danziger has been having an exhibition of his photographs taken in Afghanistan. He was commissioned by the Department For International Development to take photographs that illustrate the life of the people of Afghanistan over the last five years and the results, Behind The Headlines- Afghan Lives, have been on show at the HOST(Honduras Street) Gallery.

Nick Danziger wrote the excellent Danziger’s Travels book after he’d won a Winston Churchill Memorial Fellowship in 1982 and traveled the ancient route overland from Turkey to China. The book was a big success and since then he’s done two other’s Danziger’s Adventures and Danziger’s Britain: A Journey To The Edge. He’s also an award winning documentary maker and has done programmes for the BBC, Channel 4 and the Discovery channel among others. A lot of his films deal with troubled and dangerous places such as Afghanistan and Kosovo.

He’s got an interesting background, American father, English mother, spent a lot of his childhood in Monaco and Switzerland, went to Art College in London, he’s got a track record of producing good work.

The show at HOST has been running since 7 November-18 November this Saturday. They’re open from 10am-6pm and the exhibition is free, the nearest tubes are Barbican or Old Street.