Afghanistan six months on from the Taliban takeover – photo essay

The photojournalist Stefanie Glinski reports on a country traumatised and tired, with an uncertain future as unemployment and poverty spread and memories of freedoms fade

August's adrenaline may have worn off but the harrowing memories have not faded. It's been six months since the Taliban took Kabul, the country's then president and his cabinet fled and thousands of people flooded the airport in panic, so desperate for a way out that several men tried to hold on to a departing plane and fell to their deaths.

Food distribution in the northern Jowzjan province. Due to the economic crisis, many people cannot afford food, even though it's widely available in the market.