For many years, Hazara artist and photographer Zahra Khodadadi fixed her lens on families in Afghanistan, exploring the ties that bind people together, writes Corinne Redfern. Now, as fear grips her country under the Taliban, and from her new home in France, she continues to use art to document the violence that is ripping so many loved ones apart. Leaving Afghanistan was never Khodadadi’s plan. Last summer, as the Taliban’s power surged across the country’s provinces, Khodadadi and her husband, a fellow artist and an activist, felt the danger approaching Kabul. With help from a former colleague in France, the couple secured emergency visas and arrived in Paris on Aug. 12. Three days later, Khodadadi awoke to terrified Facebook messages confirming that the Taliban had captured Kabul. Scared for her family, she worked around the clock to find her parents and four younger siblings a route out of the country. In December, they made it to Canada. Khodadadi doesn’t know when she’ll see them again. Khodadadi and her husband now live in an art gallery in Nice, part of a project to support artists from all over the globe. On the walls of her studio, she pins photographs of burned-out cars next to news reports describing those who lost their lives. Even from thousands of miles away, she cannot close her eyes to her people’s suffering. Read more about the Afghan women who are attempting to build new lives abroad at the link in our bio. Photographs by @fatimahhossaini for TIME