This photo is credited to famous photographer Fayyaz Ahmed.
According to Fayyaz’s notes, he found this subject at the tomb of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in Clifton, Karachi. When he asked for the photo permission, the subject replied:
“Whatever you wish”.
I saw this photo for the first time a few days ago but I keep coming back to it again and again. There is something about this guy’s eyes.
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I agree with Pervaiz Munir Alvi Sahab.
And I think the eyes in this picture are more prominent or “intense” because of its black and white effect. It might not be that difference in the colored picture.
Its sad to know that some of us have observed the effect of drugs in his eyes. But this picture reflects more hunger and malnutrition and thats why his eyes look so prominent on his weak face.
It is true!
This picture says a thousand words.
Feimanallah
Wasim
excellent photo
charas or no charas…..
WOW! Amazing & very very powerful!
Owais:
Traveling through Pakistan I stop at the ‘Mazars’ when ever I can. To me these places, large and small, present a microcosm of Pakistan. A perfect laboratory to study my own people. You will find perfectly sane and ‘educated’ people of ‘Shrine Culture’ performing ‘Sajada’ at the graves, and then not so sane ones staring at you with a piercing gaze. At these ‘Mazars’ I have seen hundreds of faces like the one shown here.
Qandeel, I posted without reading your comment (or having seen the latest National Geographic). Sorry for basically repeating what you said (but it proves we’re probably right on the money).
Well, the others are right…the first thought I had was, he’s a drug addict or mentally ill, definitely not a “normal” look. Dark turban and shawl wrapped near his chin complete the sinister cloaked look.
Unfortunately this tends to be the stereotypical face of Pakistan for Westerners. I’m thinking of the Newsweek cover right now, too. They’d love that picture. It’s also the sort of thing that is peddled by those pimps of the exotic Other, National Geographic.