Kate Brooks

Portraits

President Asif Ali Zardari poses next to two pictures of his deceased wife, Benazir Bhutto, in front of a picture of Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
   
General Pervez Musharraf, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
   
President Hamid Karzai
     
  
President Hamid Karzai
   
Druze leader, Walid Joumblat
   
Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri
     
  
Saudi Prince Mohammed Khaled al Faisal
   
General Khatol Muhammadzai was a 14-year veteran of the air force with 500 parachute jumps under her belt when the Taliban forced her to stay at home with a severance pay of $13 a month. She was the highest-ranking woman in Afghanistan's air force and the country's first female paratrooper. After the Taliban fell, she quickly returned to work.
  
Human rights lawyer, Shada Nasser, has represented a number of child brides' divorce cases in Yemen. Shada Nasser prays at her home.
     
  
Dr. Marzia Mohammadi from Bamiyan province was one of the female candidates to run in Afghanistan's first democratic parliamentary elections.
   
Mukhtar Mai reads the Koran.
  
Ambreem (not real name) was burned with acid in 1989; the culprit has never been arrested. In Pakistan people who are convicted of the crime are given minimal sentences, usually 6 months.
     
  
Souad, author of Burned Alive - a Victim of the Law of Men, survived an honour killing after getting pregnant at the age of 17 and escaped from the West Bank to Europe where she now lives with her 2 children. To protect her identity she will only be photographed wearing a mask. Burn scars cover her body.