"I spent several years in Pakistan documenting the daily life and challenges faced by refugees and internally displaced people," says Canon Ambassador Muhammed Muheisen. "When a vendor selling bubbles stood on a roadside near a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, children started chasing these bubbles. Out of the blue, this young Afghan refugee, Zawar Khan, jumped in front of my lens to catch a bubble". Taken on a Canon EOS 5D Mark III (now succeeded by the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV) with a Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM lens (now succeeded by the Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L II USM) at 1/1600 sec, f/2 and ISO50. © Muhammed Muheisen
Canon Ambassador Muhammed Muheisen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and founder of the Everyday Refugees Foundation. He has been documenting the world's refugee crisis for over a decade under the theme 'a smile in the middle of the rubble'.
Muhammed has seen a great deal pass before his lens. Since 2001 he's photographed major events around the world including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Yemeni revolution, the US-led war in Iraq and the Syrian civil war. He's also documented the funerals of the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the late South African president Nelson Mandela, and the capture of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.