LAHORE: The Government College University (GCU) in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission on Saturday held a photographic exhibition on evolution of major cities in Pakistan in connection with 8th Thaap Conference.

The conference under the theme of `The City: An Evolving Organism` spanned over eight technical sessions. Some 51 photographs on the life in major cities were put on display at the exhibition.

Thaap Director Prof Pervaiz Vandal inaugurated the exhibition and said a city was not a soulless mass of infrastructure and debris, but like an organism that grows, it develops and changes. The city was not simply about building and rebuilding infrastructure, its primary concern must be the state of people`s life.

He appreciated the work of photographers and said the photos played animportant role in preserving the social, cultural and economic history of different cities.

Thaap Chief Executive Prof Sajida Vandal said the exhibition presented a selection of visual documents on the impact of never-ending expansion and evolution of urbanisation on its inhabitants and environment.

`The photographs remind us of the ways which have moulded our living spaces and lifestyles. Both, the tragedy and the heroism of transforming urban culture are recorded in strongexpression,` she added.

GCU Vice Chancellor Prof Hassan Amir Shah said young and seasoned photographers had shared their remarkable individual vision on ever-shifting metropolitan sensibility and drawn attention to what needed to sustain the impact of massive urban expansion and its consequences on global level. Reporter