On location in Afghanistan for Hell and Back Again – in pictures

War photographer Danfung Dennis shot his documentary Hell and Back Again while on patrol with US soldiers in Afghanistan – and he took his still camera along as well
  
  


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Danfung Dennis's powerful documentary Hell and Back Again, chronicling the effects of serving in Afghanistan on American soldiers, has just gone on UK release – read what Guardian film critic, Peter Bradshaw, thought of the film. An award-winning war photographer, Dennis also took pictures while making his film. Here, a US soldier sits at the rear opening of a Chinook helicopter as it flies over Afghanistan in 2006
Photograph: Danfung Dennis/Danfung Dennis Photograph: Danfung Dennis/Action images
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Khost province, Afghanistan, 2008. A man repacks his possessions after US soldiers and Afghan police search his house
Photograph: Danfung Dennis/Danfung Dennis Photograph: Danfung Dennis/Action images
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Kandahar province, Afghanistan, 2009. A man is questioned outside his home by US soldiers in the village of Hutal Photograph: Danfung Dennis
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Kandahar province, Afghanistan, 2009. US soldiers of 2-2, 1st Infantry Division patrol in the village of Tsapowzai Photograph: Danfung Dennis
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Kandahar province, Afghanistan, 2009. A boy looks on as his father is questioned by US Army soldiers in Mazra-eh Photograph: Danfung Dennis
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Kandahar province, Afghanistan, 2009. US soldiers of 2-2, 1st Infantry Division conduct a foot patrol in the village of Hutal
Photograph: Danfung Dennis/Danfung Dennis Photograph: Danfung Dennis/Action images
 

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