Alixandra Fazzina
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After a long, hot summer that saw millions displaced by conflict in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, the last few weeks has seen residents returning as an uneasy peace prevails. Outside of Swat’s main city Mingora, operations by security forces still continue as Maulana Faizullah’s Taliban linger in the villages and mountains. Even as attacks continue residents are returning to broken families and destroyed homes while facing an uncertain future. Read More/Comment
Many express concern that the Taliban will return to their campaign of terror. “We pray that They don’t come back” looks at the fractured lives of those who have returned to Swat. Coming from a fine art background, Alixandra Fazzina began her working career as a commissioned war artist with the Ministry of Defence, embedded with multinational troops on the frontline in Bosnia making documentary studies. Subsequent press assignments in The Balkans and Eastern Europe eventually led her back into work with British forces in Sierra Leone. Since then, Alixandra has spent the last 8 years based in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. Traveling widely, her photography has focused upon forgotten conflicts and humanitarian issues often ignored by mainstream media. In addition to her work for British newspapers such as The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Observer, The Economist, Telegraph and Independent, reportage features have been published across international titles including Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Stern and Corriere. Alixandra’s photography has been exhibited worldwide in locations as diverse as Paris, Sao Paulo and Baghdad. Winner of the 2008 Vic Odden Award for a her contribution to photography by a British photographer under 35, Alixandra has also been a finalist in this year’s Eugene Simth and the Care awards for humanitarian reportage. Her recent work from Somalia “A Million Shillings” will be published by Trolley Books later this year. Based in Pakistan, Alixandra Fazzina has been photographing the crisis of the internally displaced persons over the last few months and continues to document the war’s effects on the civilian population after what has been Pakistan’s worst humanitarian disaster.
