Ian Stehbens' photos

This photo was recorded during my Feb 2016 visit to PAKISTAN. It tells several stories for me. One of them explains why the two potters are looking away to their left. They were watching the arrival of emergency services as there was a report that a bomb had been planted at the nearby Christian school. I had just been evacuated for safety reasons from the school compound and was sitting in a car (with dark tinted windows) waiting for our next move when I photographed these potters. Bomb Squad, fire brigade, ambulance, police all arrived. (This scare was a false alarm, but sadly the terror bombing at the entrance to a popular playground in Lahore on the evening of Easter Day killed 92 people and injured and traumatised others.)