Wendy Marijnissen

Wendy Marijnissen is a freelance documentary photographer from Antwerp, Belgium.

She started out photographing part time in the theatre and music world in Belgium, soon after she went looking for stories with a wider social context.

She has worked on a long-term reportage project in Israel and Palestine, using music to show a different part of the daily life in this stressful and violent region. Showing how culture manifests itself in these communities and showing other aspects of their lives.

She continues to work extensively in the region. After covering the East Jerusalem home evictions in 2009, she’s working on a new project about childbirth and maternal mortality in Pakistan. She recently went back to Pakistan to cover the aftermath of the devastating floods and continues documenting the conditions of childbirth and maternal health.

She is one of the finalists for the FotoVisura Grant 2010 with her work ‘Every woman counts’ which won an honorable mention.

TribalTruth is pleased to present Wendy Marijnissen’s photographs of Pakistan.

$Word to mouth reaches people in the village and causes chaos in the corridor with new patients arriving non stop hoping to also see the visiting doctors from Karachi and having free surgery that they couldn\'t otherwise afford. Thari Mirwah, Pakistan, 2010$

$A woman\'s toes dip into a pool of her own of blood during a miscarriage in Qatar Hospital. Karachi, Pakistan 2010$

$A pregnant woman and her child leave the makeshift doctors office in a school now housing IDP\'s affected by the floods. Providing antenatal care is one of the priorities for doctors assisting the flood victims. Shikarpur, Pakistan, 2010$

$A midwife checks the growth and position of Hamida\'s baby in a tent set up for the midwives and nurses to work in. The Pakistani Medical Association has been providing free care for a number of camps and trying to treat the displaced communities in the camps. For most pregnant women in the camp this is the first time they have prenatal care and regular checkups during their pregnancy. Karachi, Pakistan, 2010$

$After completing all the different steps in the traditional naming ceremony, the baby gets wrapped into a white cloth. Hamida\'s mother performed this ceremony in the tent where the family now lives after having been displaced for over two months since flood waters destroyed their house. Karachi, Pakistan, 2010$

$A view of one of the many camps for flood victims. Heavy monsoon rains displaced over 20 million people across Pakistan in the summer of 2010. The IDP\'s (Internally displaced people) now live in tents or schools used as temporary shelter and wait for the water to recede and return home to rebuild their lives. Karachi, Pakistan, 2010$