Visual Ethnography

Long before I began analyzing social systems, I was deconstructing the physical world through a lens. As a pioneer of macro photography in Pakistan—and one of the first women to gain national recognition in this niche—I spent years training my eye to look closer. My work, which earned numerous awards and led to my own television show, Natasha Clicks (Abb Takk TV), was never just about capturing beauty; it was about understanding mechanisms.

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That obsession with 'how things work'—breaking down a complex whole into its intricate, often invisible parts—is precisely what led me to anthropology. Whether I am looking at the vein of a leaf or the structure of a patriarchy, my method remains the same: a rigorous, granular focus on the details that others overlook.