Fisherwomen from Nagapattinam turn documentary photographers

[ad_1] The team from Nagapattinam that participated in the workshop | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Fisherwoman P Poonkodi will never forget the looks she got from people in her village when they first saw her with a DSLR camera. “I felt uncomfortable,” recalls the 34-year-old, who is from Seruthur in Nagapattinam. “They asked lots of […]

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This exhibit on climate change at Chennai’s DakshinaChitra displays stories from People’s Archive of Rural India

[ad_1] Women work without shielding their eyes against the blazing whites of Thoothukudi’s salt pans The two-month long Bhin Bhini: Changing Climate, Uncertain Livelihoods exhibit at DakshinaChitra’s Varija Gallery looks beyond the frames of its pictures and art installations. Bhin Bhini meaning numerous is a name given to aggressive hybrid pests that ravage crops. The […]

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An exhibition on climate change featuring stories from PARI at Chennai’s DakshinaChitra

[ad_1] From a story on flooding at Semmanjeri in 2020 | Photo Credit: M Palani Kumar Climate change is not just about rising oceanic temperatures and melting icebergs. “It is a lot more complex than that,” says Chennai-based artist and cultural producer Krishnapriya CP. She talks about a certain “precarity” that exists in the lives […]

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