ed sheeran and bring me the horizon to start, i don t know if other people knew what that was happening but i didn t and i thought it was a great surprise. but i didn t and i thought it was a great surprise- great surprise. thank you for “oininr great surprise. thank you for joining us- a new exhibition by a british asian photographer documenting a journey with her mother has opened in birmingham. maryam wahid visited pakistan to see where her mother grew up and to discover what her own life could have looked like. pria rai reports. it s titled zaibunnisa, her mum s maiden name before she came to the uk. it connected me with all those stories that i was told as a young girl about lahore and about her birthplace. somewhere maryam wanted to know more about. since i was six, seven years old, and i started to see another world outside birmingham, you know, the family have been able to see lahore in these pictures. i couldn t help but really think about what my alternative life could h
it s titled zaibunnisa, her mum s maiden name before she came to the uk. it connected me with all those stories that i was told as a young girl about lahore and about her birthplace. somewhere maryam wanted to know more about. since i was six, seven years old, and i started to see another world outside birmingham, you know, the family have only been able to see lahore in pictures. i couldn t help but really think about what my alternative life could have looked like when i visited lahore. and so in 2019 maryam made herfirst ever trip to pakistan and took her mum who hadn t been to herfamily home for more than 20 years. to be able to get that close to where they lived and the bed they slept on, the room that they ate in, was an amazing feeling, to go as far as going to pakistan and going to the border of india and pakistan, taking my mum with me, she swore she would never go back to pakistan, was as close as i was ever going to get to really recording my own story. it s not always easy