Osama's Christmas present to the West.by Juilee Pryor
I’ve spent the day scanning old negatives for an particular project I’m working on and I came across some images of this. Do I know what it is? Oh yes. Do you know what it is? Let’s see. Is this a fake? Oh no its the real deal. Shot in 1982 when the world was a different place. Was it a better time or not? I don’t know. Was it more dangerous. I can’t tell. Was this type of import more prevelant or more insidous? I don’t know. Was it mine. No. I just happened to be somewhere were I saw it and was allowed to photograph it. Have I seen one since? No not for ages and ages and thank goodness for that. Is it still going on? You bet baby.
This is Osama’s gift to the west. We give them death and destruction and they give us the same thing back just wrapped up pretty and sprayed with gold paint.
thats a picture of two one kilo blocks of finest afgani hashish. view it larger to have a look at the pictures of the ‘farmers’.
and trust me it wasn’t mine. but it perfectly illustrates why I always carry a camera. sometimes things come before your eyes that no one else would ever believe.
thanks for explaining. even larger, it made no sense to me!
It looks very flat, so I can’t imagine how each one is a kilo!
It makes a beautiful surface though…inspires curiosity because unless you know about that stuff, it could be that chinese funeral paper for all I know!
not something you see every day-it must of been a treasure to find the image.
thanks Robert. I’d completely forgotten I had these shots. I was scanning performance shots for and anthology that I’m preparing to excecute and found five shots of this little package on the end of a roll. I remembered the circumstances instantly but with out the visual prompt I would have never ever remembered shooting it. Amazing really for sure. I’m pretty sure the gold paint means it was processed with opium.
body mechanic you are so cheeky! can you imagine trying to shove this up your jumper and sail through customs. doesn’t bear thinking about in these paranoid times I tell you! I seriously have no idea how you’d get something like this in to the country but its 100% real. that little clipping is more scary to me than the drugs to be honest. all those guys have got really big guns and the stamp on the surface makes it look like it was done on a production line.
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sorry, I don’t know what it is. What is it?
thats a picture of two one kilo blocks of finest afgani hashish. view it larger to have a look at the pictures of the ‘farmers’.
and trust me it wasn’t mine. but it perfectly illustrates why I always carry a camera. sometimes things come before your eyes that no one else would ever believe.
a mystery
thanks for explaining. even larger, it made no sense to me!
It looks very flat, so I can’t imagine how each one is a kilo!
It makes a beautiful surface though…inspires curiosity because unless you know about that stuff, it could be that chinese funeral paper for all I know!
not something you see every day-it must of been a treasure to find the image.
excellant picture the world was a lot more innocent then
thanks micheal. yes the world was more innocent then but the devastation of drugs still exists.
Oh..my…god. Blimey! Thats really quite incredible Juilee
so u managed to dump it b4 customs got u ,?well done i say and u got the pici for posterity!
thanks Robert. I’d completely forgotten I had these shots. I was scanning performance shots for and anthology that I’m preparing to excecute and found five shots of this little package on the end of a roll. I remembered the circumstances instantly but with out the visual prompt I would have never ever remembered shooting it. Amazing really for sure. I’m pretty sure the gold paint means it was processed with opium.
body mechanic you are so cheeky! can you imagine trying to shove this up your jumper and sail through customs. doesn’t bear thinking about in these paranoid times I tell you! I seriously have no idea how you’d get something like this in to the country but its 100% real. that little clipping is more scary to me than the drugs to be honest. all those guys have got really big guns and the stamp on the surface makes it look like it was done on a production line.