Photowalk can help Cultural Heritage of Sindh getting promoted among general masses
Sharjeel Ahmed Talpur
BS III 2K16/MC/101
Cultural heritage is the one of the most important aspect of society which represents the people of nation and the same goes for the Sindh Province as well. Sindh is not a new born province, it has a deep history. This land has been ruled not only by middle eastern rulers but also by the western rulers, which include Muhammad Bin Qasim, Raja Dahir and many other rulers like them have ruled over Sindh, and still there are stand some buildings and tombs and other architechture in different cities which represents those rulers and their presence in Sindh. However,due lack of interest, we are unable to take care of these, and we are losing it slowly and gradually. Journalists have written hundreds of reports until now regarding these magnificent cultural monuments, but nowadays only few people are reading about them newspapers in details.
Nowadays photography is getting trendy among the people, every 3rd or 4th person owns a DSLR, or any camera phone. Besidesthat, photography is also a part of Journalism- Photo Journalism - which has hardly been taught by the Public Sector Universities in Sindh, and this can be the most important and intriguing part of Journalism, only if we work on it, because, visuals effects more then words.
Photowalk is an activity which is mostly performed by the Photographers, in which they walk through any specific area or city, to capture pictures for a purpose. This purpose can range from exhibiting architecture to any specific culture or lifestyle. In this activity, Photographers capture that specific area or city with their unique style, and exhibit it for the general public, to show them what the photographer saw there at particular area or city. Till now, more then 10 photowalks have been organized in Sindh, from which one was organized in Hyderabad, two were organized in Tharparkar and rest of them were organized in Karachi, where hundreds of photographers participated and walked through the areas of those cities, and captured the cultural heritage and architecture. They also exhibited those pictures in galleries of those cities, and invited locals and the professionals from different areas, to tell them tale of their city through those photographs. Those photographers got appreciated by the guests and by the locals for doing these efforts. But due to the lack of awareness of Photo Journalism and Photowalk, people are unable to organize such kind of walks in other culturally rich areas likeTando Muhammad Khan, Tando Fazil, Tando Jam, Shahdadpur, Achro Thar,Brahmanabad (Mansoora). Besides these, there are still more cities in interior Sindh that carry cultural architecture which really deserves to be promoted among the general masses and people should be aware of. Due to the lack of awareness of the value of those buildings and streets, we have already lost lot of buildings, which are either ruined by Land Mafia, or some of them are already illegally encroached by immigrants since the partition in 1947.
If we start spreading the awareness among our public sector institutes and Universities, regarding the importance of the subject of Photo Journalism, only thenwe can create many photographers, who can explain the real situation just in one picture to the readers visually in a more effective way, and when such journalists will go on the field, they can organize such kind of events in their hometowns and cities, and exhibit the beauty to the general masses, by explaining them the real background of that particular location, through which they have walked, and captured, and tell the tale of that cities to the general masses and create awareness about it, and tell them the value of that area as well, so that it can easily be promoted among the general masses.
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