For more of my photos, or to buy my book, please visit www.nickkembel.com As I travel through this part of the world, a region that for most people in the West first and foremost stirs up visions of war, instability, and fighting, I have made this question of violence and safety my foremost topic of conversation with local people. But not in the way that you might think. I have not been asking people, “why is your country so turbulent?” or “why do these streets feel so unsafe”, but rather the complete opposite. What I really want to know is, how is it that I can find myself in the core of what is thought of by most of my peers as a zone of virtually permanent instability and violence, labeled a member of the
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