There, There

This work moves between my two ‘homes’: my birthplace, Karachi, and the city of my residence at the time, Vancouver. All images are made in 120mm and 35mm over 2015-6 as are the prose-poems accompanying the pictures.

Photographing in Vancouver was part of my day-to-day as I tried to find a sense of belonging there. I think often of how ‘belonging’ holds within it, ‘longing’.

I made the Karachi pictures on a visit to Pakistan in 2016 when my mother was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. It was an intense period of distress but also, love. Between hospital visits and time with loved ones, to find control, I photographed.

The title of the series: ‘There, There’ expresses spatial and temporal distance, speaks of dreamscapes, and also does its work as a phrase that offers consolation.