This photo was taken in a hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan in 2005 in the wake of the Great Pakistan earthquake, which struck on October 8, 2005 and killed nearly 80,000 people, injured 100,000 more and left more than 3 million people homeless. It was the first week of this project and I had been documenting life in the refugee camps and hospitals while planning my route into Kashmir, the region hardest hit by the earthquake.
I will never forget my first few minutes in this particular hospital, as I was invited into the emergency room that was taking care of several severely wounded individuals. The tile floor of the ER was slick with so much blood in certain parts of the room that I actually felt my feet getting soaked through my boots.
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