Says Alessio: In a landmark judgment, in 2014, the Indian Supreme Court recognized the status of a Third Gender for Transgenders and Hijras, asking the Central Government to treat Transgenders as a socially and economically deprived social category that needs educational and employment reservation. Some four years later, on 6th...
Jayanta Roy: Silent Loneliness of Changthang
Silent Loneliness of Changthang is an exploration of Indias Last wildness, located in Ladakh's Changthang plateau, which is a small part of much larger changthang plateau starting from Tibet, this place is a high altitude desert at 14000 ft , cold dry, and lonely. For miles after miles no one...
Majlend Bramo: Like Sugar in Milk
Shot in Mumbai, India, this is the story of the fight for survival of the Parsi community. Parsis are the last followers of the Zoroastrian religion, one of the oldest monotheistic religion on Earth. Their prophet, Zarathustra is believed to have preached his teachings around 1000 BCE. Until the Arab...
Interview with documentary photographer Giulio Di Sturco
Giulio Di Sturco (b.1979, Italy) is a visual artist based in London. He studied at the European Institute of Design and Visual Arts in Rome and then moved to India where he spent five years refining his visual vocabulary, working throughout much of Asia and Africa. His awards include three...
Swastik Pal: The Hungry Tide Project
What would you do if you see all that you had in life, sinking right in front of you? Ghoramara, an island located 150 km south of Kolkata, India in the sensitive Sunderban delta complex of the Bay of Bengal, has earned the stark sobriquet of “sinking island”. The island,...
Mijannur Gazi: Extension of a City
Kolkata (Calcutta), the metro city of India, like other big cities, is getting bigger by the day in its physical format. The adjacent suburban areas are also becoming part of the main city. A few years back areas which were just negligible neighboring spaces, have now integrated into the city....
Giulio Di Sturco: Ganga Ma
A symbol of spirituality as old as Jerusalem and Athens, the Ganges River has become the first non-human entity in India to be granted the same legal status as that of human beings. The river goddess Ganga once flowed wild and free, ripping through the Indian landscape with vigor and...
Sharbendu De: Imagined Homeland
Imagined Homeland (2013-ongoing) is a crossover documentary series on the life of the Tibeto-Burmese Lisu tribe living in the dense forests of Namdapha National Park (NNP) and Tiger Reserve on the remote Indo-Myanmar border of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Says De: The Lisus call the forests ‘home’, self educate their children,...
Serena De Sanctis: Urban Migrants
This projects aims at documenting the deplorable condition of thousands of people coming to Delhi from the poorest states in India and eventually become homeless. Thousands of homeless in the Indian national capital are struggling to overcome the harsh winters and the hot summers. Homelessness has been a problem for...
Sharafat Ali Dar: Who Am I – Uncertain Identity
Kashmir, one of the most under-reported conflicts in the world today, is often seen by many as just a territorial dispute between South Asian nuclear rivals, India and Pakistan. But in the last 28 years, the humanitarian cost of the conflict has been extremely huge. Once called the paradise on...