For almost twenty years, a photographer from Lahore has been bringing art around Pakistan, transforming roadside walls, school courtyards, and village squares into classrooms.
Carbon Roadside Arts, a traveling art education initiative that offers free art classes, photography exhibits, and movie screenings to kids who don’t often get to visit a gallery or a large screen, started out as a small project in 2006 under the design firm Orange Concept.
Speaking to this scribe, Zaheer Chaudhry names his initiative after a straightforward picture: a child’s imagination can be transformed into something priceless with the correct pressure and light, just like carbon is transformed into a diamond. He leaves Sindh, Gilgit-Baltistan, and loads a projector, printed photos, a portable screen, and basic art supplies into any available vehicle.
