Archive for December, 2010
Pakistani women and maternal health-photographs by a western female journalist
Posted on December 7, 2010, by mercedes, under Gender Masala.
By Zofeen Ebrahim
Journalist based in Karachi. Pakistan
I met Wendy Marijnissen, 36, a photojournalist from Belgium and was quite intrigued by her story. An aspiring woman looking to capture the truth as it is, she came to Pakistan in Nov. 2009, throwing all caution to the wind that included turning her back on the travel advisory that warned western travelers. She believed in visiting with “an open mind” as the best entrance to a new country. Her mission—to capture through her lens the lives of Pakistani women. “I wanted to portray the Pakistani women, to give to the western audience a different view, which is less clichéd than what people might expect,” she told me. (more…)
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