“Sohail Karmani has produced a beautiful body of images from his ancestral hometown in Pakistan. The sensitivity and intimacy he has achieved can be seen in the dignified, strong and possessed people that inhabit his images. The photography runs in a formal vein, but Sohail has pulled it off with almost painterly texture, balanced and composed images and a strong sense of style.”

“Sohail’s excellent photos have managed to take me back to Pakistan. Through his simple and honest portraits, where the dignity of the people stands out, Sohail manages to impress the viewer with each expression of his characters. Anonymous, humble people pose in a casual and innocent way for his camera. Sohail has achieved the goal of portraying his own people, and he’s done it in a masterful way.”

“The most striking feature in this book is the humanity with which Sohail presents his work. With his emotionally engaging interplay of light, colour and human interaction, Sohail exposes us to the joys of connecting.”

“We have become accustomed to thinking about cities in terms of facts and figures. Sohail Karmani turns facts into faces, numbers into people – a cathartic act that allows us to get back in touch with the real concept of humanity. I like to think of his work not as his photography, but as his profound vision of a world that is slipping away from us. Sohail finds a way, through his photography, to have us stand as if in front of altars made of real glances, of living flesh, of dirty feet that magnify life. Sohail transports us to a planet that magnifies mankind in its true essence for generation 3.0, daughter of the pixels. His work becomes flesh to touch, hair to caress, faces to love. His mind possesses the tools to transform the metaphysical into the physical, the exterior into the interior, adventures of the body into adventures of the spirit. It is not us we who are looking at his works. It is them who are looking at us.”