Photos and video from my trip to Afghanistan

These Chinook helicopters ferry people around Helmand all day. They are like buses. Photograph: Nick Hopkins for the Guardian

I'm back from Afghanistan and have put some of my photos and a short video on Flickr and YouTube.

I am no photographer, believe me.

A bunker at the British army base in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan. If there is a rocket attack, this is one of the things you are supposed to hide under. Photograph: Nick Hopkins for the Guardian

But I hope the pictures give a slightly different insight into life in Lashkar Gah.

The video I took on the way back from Laskhar Gah to Camp Bastion.

The gunner on the ramp of the Merlin helicopter has the best/worst job of all, depending on your perspective.

I couldn't do it.

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