Aun Raza News Today

‘Lahore suffers daily power outages and it felt like I’d found the culprit. The way the fingers seem to be interfering with overhead wires is what makes the shot work’

At the Punjab Institute of Mental Health in Lahore, Pakistan, reports Venice-based photographer Marylise Vigneau, Bollywood songs and melodies of devotion and religious lamentation ring out through the facility’s 1400 beds. Here, she encountered agony and heartache, but she also uncovered moments of gentleness and delight. During her visits over three years, the residents blew soap bubbles, traded smoked, and listened as one older man recited John Keats in English.