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I take photographs and document memories: Moska Najib

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Competing for a photography job in Australia, Moska Najib shares what photography means to her.

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Moska Najib is a long way from home. The daughter of executed Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah, now an Indian citizen, is ready to embark on a new journey. She is competing with 18 others (from 620,000 worldwide entries) to clinch the Best Job in the World, conducted by Tourism Australia. If she wins she will spend six months as a Lifestyle Photographer (Tourism Victoria) based in Melbourne. “In 2009, when Tourism Australia ran its first Best Job in the World campaign, I was producing a story for the BBC.

I wanted to challenge myself, but I couldn’t apply due to work commitments. This year, I decided to take the plunge. I was on a photography trip in West Bengal when I came across the campaign. I put together my 30-second video application in five days,” Moska says about her participating in this competition.

To make the cut, Moksa will compete in a series of challenges, including writing an article for Time Out Melbourne, clicking photos and sharing our

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“When you enter the Kabuliwalas’ homes in Kolkata you feel like you’re back in Afghanistan” – Moska Najib

Inspired by Rabindranath Tagore’s 1892 short story, the Kabuliwala, photographers Moska Najib and Nazes Afroz spent three years capturing the lives of the Kabuliwalas of Kolkata. Chris Finnigan talks to Moska about how their new exhibition in London reveals how generations of Afghan migrants have preserved their Pashtun identities in their new homeland.

How did Tagore’s story inspire this photographic project?

Tagore’s short story is about an Afghan merchant who travels through the hinterlands to the city of Kolkata in India to sell dry-fruits. There he ends up befriending a little, Bengali girl called Mini who reminds him of the daughter he left behind in Afghanistan. The story is about their unique bond and friendship. It’s this story that really inspired me. For the majority of my life, while growing up in India, Tagore’s story has been a point of reference and cross-connection in many conversations about Afghans and the historical ties between the two countries. While growing up, often times when I mentioned that I was from Afghanistan, many would either remark about the ongoing conflict or Tagore’s short story.

While I knew of Tagore’