27 I was living and working in Papa and
I was on a huge story my job was to find
people in the middle of the Punjab that
we’d interviewed one year before during
the worst running the country had ever
seen I left my home in the UK for years
before on what I told my parents with a
one-year trip overseas I was having
overland through Asia no flying and I
had this dream to work as our foreign
correspondent sustained of international
newsroom and I thought I could
eventually go home with my experience
get a job with a newspaper in the UK and
that would be my start but I also knew I
could do it a little differently I was
already living in the country I wanted
to report from I wasn’t fitting in at
that we tend to be fine personally I was
already in that hot expecting unusual
place that I wanted to be telling
stories and I was okay with that
so I’m sitting on a chopper in the
middle of the Punjab middle of the
afternoon
baking Sun we think one of our subjects
arrived and I was talking with
fine quit and I took the first image
that I’m gonna show you
so this is our villages they’re gathered
outside of a small group of shops the
two women in the image are collecting
clean drinking water
it’s calm it’s green is but one able for
this photograph is taking this whole
area was covered in water and these
people lives and their dreams and their
houses now this whole area look small
expose people were stacking bricks they
were implementing they’re trying to
rebuild their lives a hell of it and
when I took this image I was dying that
with my camera and I’ll try a missile to
technically good and she’d say I was
talking to the photographer that I went
and and look in the back of the camera
and I realized that you can make a
technically good image that works but
when we take what about you also capture
a moment in someone’s life and when you
capture these moments you can start to
share that and part little stories and
this is the image that I took in
I realized that I don’t
[Music]
so the moving part of the exciting thing
for me to realize but it was also very
terrifying it kind of like deciding you
one of these in the hundreds but only
know I’m kind of plays because I’m a
football I played taking photographs for
a very long time I didn’t know how to
turn that into taking a lot of good
photographs over a very long period of
time and I also have already had job I
was doing something that I really wanted
to do I was working as a foreign
correspondent I was living it after me
this was the thing of the I said I
wanted to happen it was a strict to my
life and no point in strict would it
have said now take everything you
thought that you knew you wanted and and
throw that out the window but that was
the situation that I was facing so I’m
standing in the field I’m holding my
camera and I’m thinking how am I gonna
make this new dreamless new reality
you think tangible something real
because up until that point I had taken
a long burst I’ve taken advantage of
opportunity that given I created my own
as well but this really felt like I had
to now create something from nothing and
follow this new party’s talk so there
are always obstacles and I know a lot of
you in this room are going to be trying
to face the kind of obstacles that’s
going to make me govern a little bit at
the start of your career mine kind of
came down to two things one how can I
become confident enough to say the thing
I thought I want it I don’t want any I
want this new different dream that I
don’t really know how to achieve but
it’s something that I know I need to do
and the other a second biggest issue and
I think for all of us me because say
something a little bit simpler I’m at
point a over here point B where I want
to be is over here and I don’t know
exactly what needs to go in the middle I
just know I need to figure out how I’m
going to get there I was just doing it
to feed myself I already had a job you
just believe that
so I decided pretty quickly if I was
going to change my direction in my
career I have to fit the topography
around what I was already doing and one
thing I had on my side of time because
we do
and I was fascinated
so from that moment I started
photographing around my real life
I was sitting photo editors or my thing
though I’m getting four in the morning I
was going out shooting and I slowly
started to photograph the images that
we’ve gone with the stories that I was
right and it’s really the biggest thing
being it’s also the simplest and it’s
going to be able to sing for about you
here I’ve never studied so I needed to
find a way becoming the thing I wanted
to become the first thing I did was I
found a few mentors that who took me
through what I was going through and
that will be key I think and the second
thing is you have to be willing to get
out there and practice there’s an
already culture brussels word says
you’ve got 10,000 photograph your worst
I know this this photograph lectures the
first one I took that I said yes this is
what I want I think that was probably
about put it off number seven so the
thing about ours and taking your time
and getting into what you want to do
that has been easy for me
and I also think that you need to take
more chances and take more risk and
we’re talking about disruption today and
I think for me going after what I wanted
and jumping in and gone to these new
places taking their chance on my future
that was something I was really prepared
to do at the time I was also reporting a
lot growing gradually g-packs
on the thousands of people displaced
from Afghanistan because place from
within Pakistan let their whole lives
behind coming to these huge refugee
camps living very close together very
smart very practical and I was traveled
a lot in Arabic and I was writing about
a lot I was meeting I was covering
stories about fear about displacement
just
practical things lacking resources
mental health and the more I was in the
area and the more I was meeting with
people that are surprised about me
the more I started realizing that
telling that story especially for me was
he it’s very rare particularly to be
allowed to perform in it it’s very rare
to be allowed in such intimate moments
and lies but every time I went to these
areas I was walking I was able to fit
with families women talk through their
stories and I can’t imagine coming away
from these areas without an image that
would show what these people who had
never met we like I can’t even begin to
understand what they were going through
and and how they were now this thing is
totally alien life and I know a lot of
you here are looking at
the idea of realizing I put myself on
the final furlong I would then go and
try and figure out how to sell his
interest later I would shoot for myself
I am broke under reported issues I once
interviewed an exhale gunfighter that I
met in vegetable market so it’s very key
for me to keep taking advantage of my
changes and I just started to realize
that I can tell stories that I wanted to
tell without showing
the second image I have to show you is
of a woman in a refugee camp near
Peshawar she survived her name is
Kenyatta she came from Pakistan tribal
area and she was suffering with
depression PTSD from living in the kind
of conditions she was living
and coming from the kind of life and
when I met her and I thought about her
particularly you photograph someone’s
face you can’t show I really wanted to
show the space she lived in and trying
to talk to something with her heart
system and it was these kind of images
that I really thought I needed to start
showing ir s– interest and it was
paying off and I really started to
realize this life I thought it wanted
been replaced by the new to tell my
story and I wasn’t sitting at that desk
waiting here’s mine
I was chasing my own dream and I would
be able to go out into areas of Pi in
particular and meet these this is a
device on an Afghan border in northern
Pakistan there’s only about 3000 of them
left and they’re very important to me
and very special because this was the
third time I started to work on my own
story and trying to show the lives of
people that I had never heard
there’s a practical because of the past
are very much to get to
it’s only 80 villages related
[Music]
this is the first time they’ve ever had
a written alphabet I believe this is one
of the few images that actually shows
the new alphabet to have before this
picture was taken there really struggled
to try to bring their own language and
this is iconic and that’s really
important to me being able to show the
tiny moments and people’s lives that are
important to them
[Music]
they’ll have some pretty good constable
so talking about destruction and was
working about bravery to go up to
something that you want his phrase in
that risk exactly to me and it will do
for you as well but the real bravery
from me comes from the people whose
stories and telling I was photographing
in Kabul earlier this year in women
shelter and I met a girl that I run away
from home after she was raped by a
Taliban mother when I photographed her
she was holding her food for itself
260
she arrived in Kabul alone and what
helped her find the shelter and when she
got there she had to give back her money
had never heard from her they were
probably dumber again from the outset
her life impossible back she has dreams
as well she is going to be a policewoman
and this is happening
[Music]
in Kalia I’ve watched families bury
their sons and I followed patients
report it takes bravery to be in the
places where I live but the remarkable
person in that situation isn’t me if a
person who’s taking me into that home
and allowing me to spend time with them
who’s opening up is giving me the
moments and the stories that I won’t be
showing so whatever parent card in
itself to make the changes that you made
or what I want to do or remarkable
courage in situations that I’m finding
from other people the complex term
bravery has played an important role in
my life yeah and I know that some of you
here are starting the next phase I
realize you’re looking at
and you might have idea that looks like
you might have no idea whatsoever you
might have a total change of heart the
way I did but all of you are going to be
afraid something afraid of how much
it’ll take me did you
and I can tell you now that the only
thing is to focus on is being brave
enough and honest enough to make the fun
decisions that maybe a little bit less I
may be completely different that will
take you through to the next stage
decisions that you make now aren’t
forever
the part that you follow will be ones
you don’t expect and no matter what
happens to you in the career about certs
they caught it’s probably not going to
look like highly expected and you’ll
need courage
whether it’s stuck in the table or iron
or saying goodbye switch me or firstly
one but only by being brave enough to
make those decision we discovered a new
life adventure that you could happen
so in conclusion I think this bravely
it’s okay to be afraid because you can’t
be brave
[Music]
I was on a huge story my job was to find
people in the middle of the Punjab that
we’d interviewed one year before during
the worst running the country had ever
seen I left my home in the UK for years
before on what I told my parents with a
one-year trip overseas I was having
overland through Asia no flying and I
had this dream to work as our foreign
correspondent sustained of international
newsroom and I thought I could
eventually go home with my experience
get a job with a newspaper in the UK and
that would be my start but I also knew I
could do it a little differently I was
already living in the country I wanted
to report from I wasn’t fitting in at
that we tend to be fine personally I was
already in that hot expecting unusual
place that I wanted to be telling
stories and I was okay with that
so I’m sitting on a chopper in the
middle of the Punjab middle of the
afternoon
baking Sun we think one of our subjects
arrived and I was talking with
fine quit and I took the first image
that I’m gonna show you
so this is our villages they’re gathered
outside of a small group of shops the
two women in the image are collecting
clean drinking water
it’s calm it’s green is but one able for
this photograph is taking this whole
area was covered in water and these
people lives and their dreams and their
houses now this whole area look small
expose people were stacking bricks they
were implementing they’re trying to
rebuild their lives a hell of it and
when I took this image I was dying that
with my camera and I’ll try a missile to
technically good and she’d say I was
talking to the photographer that I went
and and look in the back of the camera
and I realized that you can make a
technically good image that works but
when we take what about you also capture
a moment in someone’s life and when you
capture these moments you can start to
share that and part little stories and
this is the image that I took in
I realized that I don’t
[Music]
so the moving part of the exciting thing
for me to realize but it was also very
terrifying it kind of like deciding you
one of these in the hundreds but only
know I’m kind of plays because I’m a
football I played taking photographs for
a very long time I didn’t know how to
turn that into taking a lot of good
photographs over a very long period of
time and I also have already had job I
was doing something that I really wanted
to do I was working as a foreign
correspondent I was living it after me
this was the thing of the I said I
wanted to happen it was a strict to my
life and no point in strict would it
have said now take everything you
thought that you knew you wanted and and
throw that out the window but that was
the situation that I was facing so I’m
standing in the field I’m holding my
camera and I’m thinking how am I gonna
make this new dreamless new reality
you think tangible something real
because up until that point I had taken
a long burst I’ve taken advantage of
opportunity that given I created my own
as well but this really felt like I had
to now create something from nothing and
follow this new party’s talk so there
are always obstacles and I know a lot of
you in this room are going to be trying
to face the kind of obstacles that’s
going to make me govern a little bit at
the start of your career mine kind of
came down to two things one how can I
become confident enough to say the thing
I thought I want it I don’t want any I
want this new different dream that I
don’t really know how to achieve but
it’s something that I know I need to do
and the other a second biggest issue and
I think for all of us me because say
something a little bit simpler I’m at
point a over here point B where I want
to be is over here and I don’t know
exactly what needs to go in the middle I
just know I need to figure out how I’m
going to get there I was just doing it
to feed myself I already had a job you
just believe that
so I decided pretty quickly if I was
going to change my direction in my
career I have to fit the topography
around what I was already doing and one
thing I had on my side of time because
we do
and I was fascinated
so from that moment I started
photographing around my real life
I was sitting photo editors or my thing
though I’m getting four in the morning I
was going out shooting and I slowly
started to photograph the images that
we’ve gone with the stories that I was
right and it’s really the biggest thing
being it’s also the simplest and it’s
going to be able to sing for about you
here I’ve never studied so I needed to
find a way becoming the thing I wanted
to become the first thing I did was I
found a few mentors that who took me
through what I was going through and
that will be key I think and the second
thing is you have to be willing to get
out there and practice there’s an
already culture brussels word says
you’ve got 10,000 photograph your worst
I know this this photograph lectures the
first one I took that I said yes this is
what I want I think that was probably
about put it off number seven so the
thing about ours and taking your time
and getting into what you want to do
that has been easy for me
and I also think that you need to take
more chances and take more risk and
we’re talking about disruption today and
I think for me going after what I wanted
and jumping in and gone to these new
places taking their chance on my future
that was something I was really prepared
to do at the time I was also reporting a
lot growing gradually g-packs
on the thousands of people displaced
from Afghanistan because place from
within Pakistan let their whole lives
behind coming to these huge refugee
camps living very close together very
smart very practical and I was traveled
a lot in Arabic and I was writing about
a lot I was meeting I was covering
stories about fear about displacement
just
practical things lacking resources
mental health and the more I was in the
area and the more I was meeting with
people that are surprised about me
the more I started realizing that
telling that story especially for me was
he it’s very rare particularly to be
allowed to perform in it it’s very rare
to be allowed in such intimate moments
and lies but every time I went to these
areas I was walking I was able to fit
with families women talk through their
stories and I can’t imagine coming away
from these areas without an image that
would show what these people who had
never met we like I can’t even begin to
understand what they were going through
and and how they were now this thing is
totally alien life and I know a lot of
you here are looking at
the idea of realizing I put myself on
the final furlong I would then go and
try and figure out how to sell his
interest later I would shoot for myself
I am broke under reported issues I once
interviewed an exhale gunfighter that I
met in vegetable market so it’s very key
for me to keep taking advantage of my
changes and I just started to realize
that I can tell stories that I wanted to
tell without showing
the second image I have to show you is
of a woman in a refugee camp near
Peshawar she survived her name is
Kenyatta she came from Pakistan tribal
area and she was suffering with
depression PTSD from living in the kind
of conditions she was living
and coming from the kind of life and
when I met her and I thought about her
particularly you photograph someone’s
face you can’t show I really wanted to
show the space she lived in and trying
to talk to something with her heart
system and it was these kind of images
that I really thought I needed to start
showing ir s– interest and it was
paying off and I really started to
realize this life I thought it wanted
been replaced by the new to tell my
story and I wasn’t sitting at that desk
waiting here’s mine
I was chasing my own dream and I would
be able to go out into areas of Pi in
particular and meet these this is a
device on an Afghan border in northern
Pakistan there’s only about 3000 of them
left and they’re very important to me
and very special because this was the
third time I started to work on my own
story and trying to show the lives of
people that I had never heard
there’s a practical because of the past
are very much to get to
it’s only 80 villages related
[Music]
this is the first time they’ve ever had
a written alphabet I believe this is one
of the few images that actually shows
the new alphabet to have before this
picture was taken there really struggled
to try to bring their own language and
this is iconic and that’s really
important to me being able to show the
tiny moments and people’s lives that are
important to them
[Music]
they’ll have some pretty good constable
so talking about destruction and was
working about bravery to go up to
something that you want his phrase in
that risk exactly to me and it will do
for you as well but the real bravery
from me comes from the people whose
stories and telling I was photographing
in Kabul earlier this year in women
shelter and I met a girl that I run away
from home after she was raped by a
Taliban mother when I photographed her
she was holding her food for itself
260
she arrived in Kabul alone and what
helped her find the shelter and when she
got there she had to give back her money
had never heard from her they were
probably dumber again from the outset
her life impossible back she has dreams
as well she is going to be a policewoman
and this is happening
[Music]
in Kalia I’ve watched families bury
their sons and I followed patients
report it takes bravery to be in the
places where I live but the remarkable
person in that situation isn’t me if a
person who’s taking me into that home
and allowing me to spend time with them
who’s opening up is giving me the
moments and the stories that I won’t be
showing so whatever parent card in
itself to make the changes that you made
or what I want to do or remarkable
courage in situations that I’m finding
from other people the complex term
bravery has played an important role in
my life yeah and I know that some of you
here are starting the next phase I
realize you’re looking at
and you might have idea that looks like
you might have no idea whatsoever you
might have a total change of heart the
way I did but all of you are going to be
afraid something afraid of how much
it’ll take me did you
and I can tell you now that the only
thing is to focus on is being brave
enough and honest enough to make the fun
decisions that maybe a little bit less I
may be completely different that will
take you through to the next stage
decisions that you make now aren’t
forever
the part that you follow will be ones
you don’t expect and no matter what
happens to you in the career about certs
they caught it’s probably not going to
look like highly expected and you’ll
need courage
whether it’s stuck in the table or iron
or saying goodbye switch me or firstly
one but only by being brave enough to
make those decision we discovered a new
life adventure that you could happen
so in conclusion I think this bravely
it’s okay to be afraid because you can’t
be brave
[Music]
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