Lukas Birk, Photo Peshawar, 2018

Photo Peshawar delves into the largely unexplored culture of photography in the Pakistani frontier city of Peshawar from the 1940s to the present day. Photography in Peshawar has historically and culturally found itself caught between the creative and conservative forces of both India and Afghanistan. With nearly hundred and fifty photographs, each more stunning than the earlier, ‘photography as craft is what this splendid volume examines—photography at the living, bleeding intersection of culture, war, frontier and fantasy, the sheer human inventiveness that results from a magnificent and tragic brew of technology and history.’