Asef Ali Mohammad will document the Hazara community living in Quetta, Pakistan. Mohammad aims to address the targeted violence against Hazaras, who migrated from Afghanistan to Pakistan to escape Soviet occupation and the effects of war. Mohammad’s goal is to better understand the context for these attacks and the relatively little media attention paid to this community’s plight.
Mohammad was born in Afghanistan and educated in Pakistan before moving to Great Britain in 2001, where he is currently pursuing a Masters of Photography at Middlesex University in London. Mohammad’s work has been published in the BBC, Foto8 Magazine, Newsweek, the Guardian, and Al Jazeera’s the Stream. His photographs have been exhibited at Impressions Gallery in Bradford, England, and the Somerset House in London. In 2012, Mohammad won the Sony World Photography Student Focus Award.