After 1 month, 5 sessions and 1,190 photographs we are debuting to you a selection of images that our Village Health Workers' have taken so far. From these, they'll be choosing a 5-10 pictures to combine into a photostory narrative that will displayed at their exhibition in Pune next weekend.
Each one of these photographs tells a story about life in their village. Some about health and sanitation, water scarcity and food production others about livelihood, gender-equity, education and community.
We have been blessed to be able to hear each of these stories from the women in our sessions but we must understand that even the perspective of the photographer is uniquely theirs and not representative of the subject of the photo.
There is so much more to these pictures than meets the eye. And it is at this point in the project that we face our most difficult question. How will these photographs be read by the rest of the world? When looking at these images we all sense that we are gaining a window into different cultures and lifestyles but the way we define these is different and can be at times confining, dogmatic and stigmatizing. To combat this, we hope that each of you looking at these photographs enter the slideshow with a blank-slate state-of-mind and begin to ask questions about what it really means to grow up and live in a different part of the world. To ask what pictures about your life would look like, and how people across the world would read them.
Rather than looking at these photographs and filing them away in folders in our minds previously designated for "3rd-world or developing countries" please join us as we take on a stripped-down perspective and look at the beauty and relevance that these images represent in our world today.
To see these photos click here or go to the Participants tab on the banner above and you can click to view each of their portfolios underneath their headshot or simply clicking on their actual photo.
Each one of these photographs tells a story about life in their village. Some about health and sanitation, water scarcity and food production others about livelihood, gender-equity, education and community.
We have been blessed to be able to hear each of these stories from the women in our sessions but we must understand that even the perspective of the photographer is uniquely theirs and not representative of the subject of the photo.
There is so much more to these pictures than meets the eye. And it is at this point in the project that we face our most difficult question. How will these photographs be read by the rest of the world? When looking at these images we all sense that we are gaining a window into different cultures and lifestyles but the way we define these is different and can be at times confining, dogmatic and stigmatizing. To combat this, we hope that each of you looking at these photographs enter the slideshow with a blank-slate state-of-mind and begin to ask questions about what it really means to grow up and live in a different part of the world. To ask what pictures about your life would look like, and how people across the world would read them.
Rather than looking at these photographs and filing them away in folders in our minds previously designated for "3rd-world or developing countries" please join us as we take on a stripped-down perspective and look at the beauty and relevance that these images represent in our world today.
To see these photos click here or go to the Participants tab on the banner above and you can click to view each of their portfolios underneath their headshot or simply clicking on their actual photo.
