Giovanna Silva & Paolo Rosselli: Islamabad Today

A documentary account of the 1962 construction of Pakistan’s government headquarters

In 1962, the architect firm of Ponti Fornaroli Rosselli was commissioned to design the government ministries for Pakistan’s new capital, Islamabad. Here, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva (born 1980) travels to this site with Paolo Rosselli, the son of the project manager, to show how these structures perform their functions of state today.