Muhammed Muheisen

The news is right in front of you, but if you just turn around, you will witness a totally different scene…

For more than a decade of moving around to capture events in countries shattered by wars or hit by natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods, there have been surprising scenes full of life that have always made their way in front of my camera, adding new colors to the predictable story, as well as a reminder that in the heart of the those conflicted regions life is the most sacred thing, that every day is a new day and yesterday is left behind with all its advantages and disadvantages.

Myself being born and raised in a region well known to conflict, survival is the first lesson to be learned as you start making differences between black and white, adapting to live with tragedies, moving on and looking forward, believing that next to death there is life, and next to a tear there is a smile.

Covering Pakistan for the last three years, a country that has been rocked by hundreds of attacks on civilians, from roadside bombs to suicide bombings and targeted killings, attacks take place on an almost daily basis, as a result of terrorism, sectarian conflict, and a mix of political, religious and criminal violence, I have seen that right next to those events happening, there is a breath holding tight onto life.