I was travelling in Pakistan after a six-month long internship in Nepal. In the one month that I was there, many people (very much the men) would proactively talk to me. Our conversations range from the frivolous to the serious, but almost all the conversations inadvertently led to a discussion of religion and politics - mainly the Islamic faith - which after a while begin to bore me to the point that I avoid speaking at length with them. It is only with the children of Pakistan that I truly feel at ease. But these young people are slowly being moulded and confronted by the tumultuous religious and political upheavels that riddled the country. I hope to capture what remaining innocence they have. These are my portraits of youth in Pakistan: the portraits of innocence.
Sam Kang Li (b.1984) recently graduated from college and is a photographer currently based in Singapore. In 2008, he interned as a photojournalist with Nepal�¢??s most widely read English-language weekly, Nepali Times, covering the country�¢??s transition from a monarchy to a republic and the coming to parliamentary powers by the Maoists. More of his works can be found on www.samkangliphotos.com
