Photo Peshawar delves into the largely unexplored culture of
photography in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar from the
1940s to the present day. Photography in Peshawar has historically
and culturally found itself caught between the creative and
conservative forces of both India and Afghanistan. Variously borne
of British rule, the partition of India, war in neighbouring
Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, local tribal law, a
historical prohibition on image-making in Islam, the practice of
purdah (the veiling of females in public), and the regional movie
industry, there is a tangible stress between the practice of
photography as it is pursued and the culture in which it is lived.
With nearly one hundred and fifty photographs, each more stunning
than the earlier, 'photography as craft is what this splendid
volume examines - photography at the living, bleeding intersection
of culture, war, frontier and fantasy, the sheer human
inventiveness that results from a magnificent and tragic brew of
technology and history'.
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