“Through my eyes — Soul of Pakistan”

[block­quote style=“3”]Through my eyes — Soul of Pak­istan is an ongo­ing project by Maria Dost in exchange with young peo­ple and dif­fer­ent pho­tog­ra­phers and artists from Pakistan.[/blockquote]

Maria Dost is a pho­tog­ra­ph­er and film­mak­er from Berlin, cur­rent­ly work­ing in Pak­istan. Ini­tial­ly a the­ater prac­ti­tion­er and film pro­duc­er, Dost ven­tured into the realms of pho­tog­ra­phy dur­ing a time of ill­ness, when she lost her abil­i­ty to speak. Dur­ing this time, pho­tog­ra­phy became a vital form of expres­sion replac­ing spo­ken word. For­tu­nate­ly, a year lat­er she recov­ered her voice but con­tin­ued to com­mu­ni­cate through her pho­tog­ra­phy.

Over the last five years, Dost has worked on var­i­ous sub­jects in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Pak­istani artists and pho­tog­ra­phers, her work being exhib­it­ed twice in Berlin. Also she is doing work­shops on pho­tog­ra­phy in var­i­ous edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions in Pak­istan. Maria is inter­est­ed in doc­u­ment­ing the peo­ple in Pak­istan, their thoughts, emo­tions and expres­sions through her pho­tog­ra­phy.