1 6

It Can Never Be The Same

It Can Never Be The Same

by Lorenzo Tugnoli

£45.00 GBP
£45.00 GBP
Sale Sold out
Tax included for domestic orders. Customs duty and import tax may apply to international orders.

Pre-order. Expected October 2025 .

The photographs in It Can Never Be The Same were made by Lorenzo Tugnoli in Afghanistan between 2019-2023— a pivotal time of transition and upheaval. Rather than traditional reportage, the collection of images in the book form a reflective journey. Tugnoli’s approach aims to question how visual representations can shape external perceptions of a complex country and the distance between those who get to tell the story and those who live it.

More about this book

This book was published thanks to the contribution of EMERGENCY

Published October 2025
Essays by Habib Zahori and Francesca Recchia
307 x 245 mm
116pp, 79 images
Hardback
ISBN 978-1-915423-98-6

View full details

From the author

  • Lorenzo Tugnoli is an Italian photographer based in Barcelona, who works in the Middle East and Central Asia.
Tugnoli lived in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2015 and has returned regularly since to continue his coverage there. The Little Book of Kabul, his collaboration with writer Francesca Recchia was pubished in 2014, and depicts Kabul through the daily lives of the artists in the city. Between 2015 and 2022 he was based in Beirut, Lebanon . A contract photographer for The Washington Post, his work has also been published in The New Yorker, Time Magazine, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, amongst others. Tugnoli was the Pulitzer Prize Winner in Feature Photography in 2019, his work was recognised by World Press Photo Awards in 2019, 2020 and 2021 and was first place in the Bayeux Calvados Normandy Award in 2021.


  • - Lorenzo Tugnoli