Cultural /Street Photography

Reference 1: "Wonder", before continuing to read this description, please answer the question that follows: "What are this person and cat looking at?", the answer is the reflection that this mirror into the unconscious is giving you, why do you think that you imagine that?. It was taken in one of the alleys of the old walled city of Lahore, Pakistan on February 2022. This picture is part of my genesis NFT collection: "15 Months in Pakistan" exposed at Open Sea.

Reference 2: "Drone, street selfie photography", that was a beautiful moment, I spent about a week in Mingora staying at a hotel right next to the bus station and that mechanics market, one of those mechanics was the very first person I met, Nawaz, and one of the very few that could speak some English, he was very welcoming and interested in me and practicing English, so I spent quite a bit of time around them. I am still in touch with Nawas, it's amazing how friendly people are here, he still writes after 2 years that we met. And this is not an exceptional situation

Reference 3: "Camels in Islamabad", One of the many times I stopped in Islamabad on my movements from north to south and vice versa, last march, it was full of camels moving around, none of the other times I stopped there for some days (at least 7 times) I saw them on the streets, as soon as the camel owner saw me trying to photograph his camels he brought this baby one and its mother. Camels are essential in the desertic parts of Pakistan, they provide almost everything, apart from being a tourist attraction, they provide milk, meat, transport, and even fuel for cooking with their dried poop. This picture is part of my genesis NFT collection: "15 Months in Pakistan" exposed at Open Sea.

Reference 4: "Street Photography", Since in Pakistan pretty much no one uses a helmet for riding motorbikes  I found a nice technique to take spontaneous street photography, this picture was taken in the city of Skardu, they were quite surprised to see me shooting the picture, the person in the front looks angry but he wasn’t, they stopped right there, one of them worked on shoe store, they showed up about a minute after I took the picture, the situation scared me in the beginning but they were coming to invite me to have some chai. This picture is part of my genesis NFT collection: "15 Months in Pakistan" exposed at Open Sea.

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Reference 6: "Panda, the Yak", I was lucky enough to be invited by a local friend on the annual Yak migration into the pastures that are 20 km up the Batura Glacier valley, this picture was taken in Yashperth, the village where all of the town used to move in summers before they started shifting from the shepherd life, Yaks are free to move in the valley, the first day the stick to the village to eat all the new flowers and grass but soon they start going up, this Yak is called Panda and belongs to my friend Sha Nawas (@yashperth). This picture is part of my genesis NFT collection: "15 Months in Pakistan" exposed at Open Sea.

Reference 7: "Pakistani Truck", trucks in Pakistan are amazingly decorated, it usually takes more than a month to do the job and they get to spend over 10000 USD, a fortune there. I took this picture in Shigar, was driving my motorbike over a very narrow dirt road, had to pull over, started taking pictures and this gentleman stopped for possing, had never been able to capture a photograph in which the crew was visible. This picture is part of my genesis NFT collection: "15 Months in Pakistan" exposed at Open Sea.

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Reference 10: "Fisherman", I was traveling from Islamabad to Lahore on my motorbike and happened to pass through Jhelum, the first big river crossing, as soon as I got into the bridge I saw that there were these fishermen finishing their day, the gifts the road has for as if we are willing to look are endless. This picture is part of my genesis NFT collection: "15 Months in Pakistan" exposed at Open Sea.

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Reference 13: "Miners", I was traveling from Skardu, the biggest city of the Gilgit Baltistan province to Hunza, to spend my last days in the mountain in the place where I made the most friends, my motorbike was burning a bit of oil at this point after many months of use so I stopped in a town in the middle of the altitude desert that was made of a few shops, later I realized that it was a provisions center for miners that work in the area. I looked for some water in the only restaurant available and they were there were, I pulled my camera out, and there seamed not to be any issues, the main character asked me to photograph him, and bam. This picture is part of my genesis NFT collection: "15 Months in Pakistan" exposed at Open Sea.

Reference 14:"Queta Tea Master 1 2 and 3": I have know this guy since I came to Pakistan for the first time in December 2020, he is a member of the family that ownes this cafe,  they are from Queta, then capital of Balochistan, one of Pakistan provinces and people from this region are famous for the tea and parathas that they make, best parathas no doubt and they have this kind of restaurant all over Pakistan, kind of a franchise that instead of being owned by a corporation is owned by an ethnic group.

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Reference 20: "The last shepherder migration?:", Up to the year 2000 people in Passu, a Wakhi community in the north of Pakistan, used to follow the traditional nomadic lifestyle they had been following for a looong time. They still have 3 settlements, two for winter time in the lower areas and one 20 km into the Batura Glacier valley for summer, every year at the end of April they take their Yaks there, in the upper part of the valley the pastures are blooming and it remains colder, now they just leave the Yaks there and come back to the main village but not long ago the whole village moved there for the whole summer, there are very few Yaks left, in the year 2000 most of them were sold, mainly for paying for their kid's education and for moving into other economical activities, this lifestyle is almost extinct in Passu. I spent a lot of time here, it's my favorite place on earth, this year a friend invited me to go with them on the migration that might be one of the last.  This picture is part of my genesis NFT collection: "15 Months in Pakistan" exposed at Open Sea.

Reference 21: "Amazing creatures": Aren't they amazing?, there is something about them, sure that the weird inaccessible places where I see them and the variety of things I see them eat play a role in this perception.