Shimshali People

Khampuchea People

Life of highland tribal people between Khmer Rouge and Angkor empire. Cambodians trace their ancestry back to a Brahman prince named Kaundiya he was from a powerful kingdom in Takkisila...

Hindu People (Varanasi)

Varanasi land of Hindu People. Home of holy Ganga river. Sanjaya said: Seeing Arjuna full of compassion and very sorrowful, his eyes brimming with tears, Madhusudana, Krsna, spoke the following words

Ladakhi People

Small Tibet, land of peace and yaks. ... i've never reached those places with my soul, i just felt as a blind wanderer on lands which may have been once blessed with quietness and spiritual strength.

Kashmiri People

"In the vicinity of the present Balapur, on the left bank of the Rembiara Nallah, there lived a poor Brahmin who had a short-tempered wife. She always dictated him with her acid tongue and the submissive Brahmin obeyed her orders without any question."

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Shimshali People, Pakistan 2010 (Pakistani women venturing in to the forbidden territory)

The project idea isn't a personal one in its social practice, but belongs to a good friend Alli Mirza (Pakistan) who always wanted to transpose the climbing and the presence of the mountain in human's life into personal and supreme forms of ransformation..Without entering into controversy and without any trace of biased sense is somehow known the fact that Muslim woman's presence in such an alpine wor ...

Shimshali People, Pakistan 2010

About the first stage of Images can change the world!

"Satwa Guna Project"

SHIMSHALI PEOPLE” 2010 aims to achieve two video documentaries every 1h 30′ and also photographic series which wants to reveal but not to judge,aspects of the…

Images can change the world (2011 stage)

About the second stage of Images can change the world!

"Satwa Guna Project"

Stage ' “IMAGES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD” of SATWA GUNA PROJECT aims to reveal but not to judge aspects of the status of women in Muslim…

Satwa Guna Project

Satwa Guna Project from the begining!

"Satwa Guna Project"

SATWA GUNA PROJECT or ILLUSION OF FORMS represents an ample photographic project that is based on photographic interpretation of the universal concept of diversity in unity.…

Partners of Shimshali People, Pakistan 2010

Partners

"Satwa Guna Project"

I would like to thank to all of those who in the past 9 years of the project, have had faith in me, in the Satwa…

Team of Shimshali People

Team of Shimshali People stage

"Satwa Guna Project"

Pavalache Stelian Nicolae (photographer, cameraman & climber), Pavalache Ana-Maria (photographer & climber), Mirza Ali (climber), Saadia Sharjeel, Samina Khayal (pakistani women climber)

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Shimshali People (Pakistan)

        Times have changed, and today women in Pakistan are working in areas which were previously designed for men (army, police).Despite the progress made by women, society and government, females continues its efforts in exclusively male domains. Climbing is one of them. Lack of information in society about mountain sports (climbing), the fact that is an expensive sport, prejudices about women inability to climb, absence from home in a wilderness area are several reasons that explain the lack of women in Pakistani alpine world.

    This project should not be isolated, he is part of a larger project that will culminate with the climbing of Everest by a Pakistani woman. We know that Everest was climbed by Iranian women, Indian women, Nepalese women. No Pakistani woman has ever climbed a 8000m peak. This is ironic if we think that Pakistan has 5 of the 14 peaks over 8000m in the world.

    The wrong messages sent worldwide start here, describing a hostile nation against women. In this project promoting women climber will help create a correct image of Pakistan. The project consists of climbing a 6400m peak (f [more...]    Stelian Pavalache

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