The Sainath exhibition described below will be taking place from 4th-7th
February in KALA ACADEMY, GOA, as part of the D.D. Kosambi celebrations.
Sainath himself will be speaking on the 6th February.
www.sais-jhu.edu/programs/asia/southasia/sa_events/sa_event_flyers/p_sainath_flyer_photo_exhibit.pdf
Visible Work, Invisible Women
When thousands of women, mostly landless labourers, queued up in Vizag city
in India to see a photo exhibition less than 40 months ago, it was an
unusual one on their own lives. Consisting of about 70 black and white
photographs with text, the exhibition is on "Women & Work in Rural India."
It is titled "Visible Work, Invisible Women"...
The pictures, shot in ten states across the country by journalist P.
Sainath, show the astonishing labour that poor women put in every day of
their lives and the gigantic -- yet unacknowledged -- contribution they make
to the national economy. A contribution worth, literally, tens of billions
of dollars. Each of ten panels deals with different kinds of work that women
do. The text details the scope, significance and centrality of that labour
to the Indian economy, particularly to agriculture.
The exhibition has so far been seen by over half a million people in several
venues in the east, west, north and south of India. One set has also toured
over 20 venues in the United States and Canada. It was shown at the Asia
Society, New York in November 2002.
In this time, it has collected 29 notebooks full of comments in nine
languages from all over India. Hundreds of pages with literally thousands of
comments.
It was inaugurated in Vizag city in late November 2001 by four of the
landless women agricultural labourers who figure in the photographs. They
sang a song of working women from the fields and declared it open.
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Question everything -- Karl Marx
