FMP Ideas
The ideas:
1. Female Gentile mutilation. FGM
This is a very sensitive issue and is very under cover. since 2009 the NHS had dealt with 4000 cases of FGM yet not even one prosecution has taken place. this is not a religious requirement and is seen by the UN as torture. Young girls are often taken abroad to pro form this procedure. I will have talk to people from the community were this is practised. For the final I would have photographs that would conceal identity. I would like to interview women who have suffered through this, maybe my project could lead to more awareness.
2. The Shaheed (The Martyrs)
This project is very close to my heart, In islam, a Shaheed means Martyr. It is someone that dies for the reason of religion. There has been a lot in the news about Shia genocide during the last past few years, I myself have been to protests. The Shia muslims are targeted by other sects of muslims because of their diffrent beliefs, they are targeted and killed. this is happening in pakistan, iraq, Bahrain. The effects ripple across to the UK, I myself have lost my uncle through target killing. I would like to photograph the relative's here in the UK. I want to portraits of relatives holding photographs of their loved ones who have been killed.
3. The children of syria
This is also a matter that I feel passionate about. I have visited many times and have friends in Syria. I have seen the people in syria and feel very close to them. I would like to go to the Jordan / lebanon camps and find children that were living in the area that i photographed in 2011. I would need to travel with a charity. This work because of the time may take longer, but i maybe able to do plan this project for next year.
4. The veil
I
would like to photograph women with the veil, this is the face covering that
only shows their eyes. I would like to photograph women from different
backgrounds. I may l have to stage the images by asking women to wear it. I
want the outcome to be two images in two frames showing half veiled and
the other unveiled this would be staged or maybe some women may agree to it. Or i would like do do portraits shots of just the eyes focusing on different race background of different muslim. I will be breaking the stereotype that all muslims are either asian or arab.
