ENTRY DESCRIPTION
On the occasion of an annual famous polo festival in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, thousands of people gather at a place called Shandur pass at around 4000 m of altitude. Beside the fascination by the rugged and vast landscape surrounding the scene, the show and mixture of people from different strands of life and many different tribal backgrounds was amazing. As if carefully choreographed, many of them were watching the match from a hill, which was fully occupied by the spectators and so densely populated that it appeared like a mountain of men against the rocky mountains in the background.

AUTHOR
Dr. Alamir is a political scientist by education and has been working in security policy and international development contexts for more than twenty years. In the wake of numerous business and private travels to Europe, Asia and Africa, she developed a keen interest in photojournalism, people and landscape photography. Around 2010, she assumed a more ambitious approach to photography and has been working to improve by professional standards ever since. Since 2017, she has won several honorable mentions in international photo competitions, among others several honorable mentions of the International Monoawards and the 1st prize (Discovery of the Year) 2019 of the Tokyo International Foto Awards.

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