Since his infancy, Akram Dost has witnessed the despair and grief of a people oppressed by the iniquities of an unjust and divided society – those mourning by the bodies of their dead, weeping over their own raped flesh and all longing for some recognition of the most basic of human rights. Discriminatory and corrupt inter pretations of the rule of law , both civil , social and religious have left a legacy of despair and anger. In the broken and twisted limbs, the haunted faces and the decaying flesh of his images, Dost , in his role both as witness and commentator , attempts to describe the dreadful realities of a society whose past and present has been corrupted by pain – what he alludes to as ‘sociopolitical realities’.
