Look: 'Expressive eyes and beautiful faces', Pakistan-based portrait photographer captures street life in Lahore

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Look: 'Expressive eyes and beautiful faces', Pakistan-based portrait photographer captures street life in Lahore

Reader's photo essay: Hammad Habib captures the stories hidden behind people's faces

Published: August 10, 2021 14:13 Manuel Almario, Senior News Editor

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reader picture — Eyes are the window to the soul. Location: Gujrat, Pakistan. She started following her mother’s tradition of using a veil. Image Credit: Hammad Habib (Insta: @hammadphotography_)/Gulf News reader

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reader picture — Fluttered in speech, flattered by eyes. Location: Ravi River, Lahore. This person's eyes are like a river, they reflect the beauty of the Almighty. Image Credit: Hammad Habib (Insta: @hammadphotography_)/Gulf News reader

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reader picture — The fearless tigress. Location: Lahore, Pakistan. When I a stranger walked up to her with my camera in the scorching heat of Lahore, her unblinking eyes made her look like a fearless tigress. Image Credit: Hammad Habib (Insta: @hammadphotography_)/Gulf News reader

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reader picture — The boy with odd eyes: Location: Kasur, Pakistan. Being a photographer, I used to capture faces and extract stories from their eyes. I crossed a milestone in my Photography career after one-and-a-half years when I captured this photograph of a Pakistani boy with complete heterochromia, a condition where a person has two different eye colours. Image Credit: Hammad Habib (Insta: @hammadphotography_)/Gulf News reader

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reader picture — Dreams in her eyes. Location: Lahore, Pakistan. There was a spark in her eyes when she saw my camera. She shared her passion for capturing pictures with me. She said: “I sometimes click pictures from my father’s phone and dream of owning a camera in the future." Image Credit: Hammad Habib (Insta: @hammadphotography_)/Gulf News reader

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reader picture — Every wrinkle has a story. Location: Cholistan, Pakistan. As a photographer who always wanders the streets fascinated by the stories in the eyes of people, I found myself walking down his life story through his wrinkles. Image Credit: Hammad Habib (Insta: @hammadphotography_)/Gulf News reader

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reader picture — Age, just a number. Location: Derawar Fort, Pakistan. When she looked at me, I felt like she had lived through more hardships in her childhood than I ever faced in my life, even as a grown up. Image Credit: Hammad Habib (Insta: @hammadphotography_)/Gulf News reader

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reader picture — Felt by the soul, witnessed by the eyes. Location: Kasur, Pakistan. My eyes stopped on the old man’s face that tells me there comes a time when you’re untroubled by the world and the only connection you establish is with the one above you. Image Credit: Hammad Habib (Insta: @hammadphotography_)/Gulf News reader

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