Sydney’s waters might have saved photojournalist Andrew Quilty. “It has been a balm for sure,” he says, distracted as he tries to find the path that will take us from a car park into the Malabar Headland national park.
From August 2021, Quilty documented horrifying scenes on the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, as the Taliban recaptured the city. He had called the city home for nearly a decade. In November 2021, he came home to write a book, his first time back since before the pandemic. Back in his home town, Sydney, he felt adrift, emotionally homeless.
