"They were beautiful. And they all told a story."

Any day of the week, tens of thousands of words are typed and filed and printed in newspapers and magazines and on television presenter teleprompters and blogs and tweets about Afghanistan, the Taliban, counter-insurgency and foreign policy. Everybody's an expert. 

Sulyman Qardash is the lead singer with the Afghan rock band Kabul Dreams. Working with activists Orzala Nemat and Sultana Lodin, Qardash has produced Stolen Moments, a photographic exhibition of works almost entirely generated by avocational and amateur photographers, with iPhones.

A love song for Kabul and its people: