Asim Rafiqui worked as an independent photojournalist from 2001-2017, producing stories for publications including National Geographic (France), GEO, Stern, and Time. He is currently pursuing a PhD, researching the sensory and embodied epistemologies of a fisherfolk community along Pakistan’s Makran coast in Balochistan
The use of women is not about the women. It isn't in the service of a liberal ideal, either. It is always about imperialism and producing among the citizens of imperial metropolises a conviction that what "redeems [imperial violence] is the idea only.
The journalism industry and journalists themselves have invested considerable time and effort in creating a near-mythic image of the war correspondent and photographer as a cavalier, swashbuckling warrior for justice and humanity. But who are they really?
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