Photo Exhibition- Women Changing India (Elles Changent L'Inde)
PhotoHow How can international culture be recognized? Is that reading more culture books? Is it summarizing and comparing cultures from other countries? Or meeting more friends from overseas？Maybe going to cultural themed exhibitions will be a nice choice, here in Paris Museums.
The Petit Palais offers an exhibition on women in India and the evolution of their social status. The exhibition, organized with support from BNP Paribas, in partnership with Reporters sans frontières and Magnum Photos, shows 108 images by six Magnum Photos photographers. Olivia Arthur, Martine Franck, Raghu Rai, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Webb and Patrick Zachmann have each chosen a different subject.
Photos: Alex Webb/based on the text by Mukul Kesavan
Hasina Shiekh at the wheel of a FOR SHE TAXI in the streets of Mumbai. FOR SHE TAXI is a special organization providing taxi services driven by women drivers.
Panchayat of Thuvarankurchi, village in Tamil Nadu state where women are voting to organize small working groups.
Inspired by the principles of Mahatma Gandhi, Ela Bhatt founded in 1970 the association SEWA. The Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) is a trade union for poor, self-employed women workers in India.
Karuna Nundy is one of Indian women lawyers. After studying at Columbia University, she practiced law in New York. Finally she decided to return to India and runs her own law firm.
The exhibition Women Changing India discovers these students, women, lawyers, taxi drivers, farmers, entrepreneurs and a filmmaker who have been able to make their own destiny. In India, women have always been dominated by men. This exhibition may help to increase the confidence of women but on the other hand, the slightly depressing side of it is that the photographers participating are all male.
Women Who Changed Indiais an exhibition we strongly recommend to see but one must keep in mind that its aim is an empowerment of women in a society where they were never free to do what they always wanted.
Venue
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
Tel: +33 (0) 1 53 43 40 00
Metro: Champs-Elysées Clémenceau (line/s 1, 13)