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Capturing hands of hope

NEW DELHI: A photo exhibition highlighting the hurdles and successes of self-sufficient women from across the country is now on at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts here.

Tilted “Hands of Hope”, the exhibition features photographs that showcase members of the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) engaged in income-generating activities like participation in micro-credit collectives, embroidery and beedi-rolling. The photographs show how women are earning their bread and butter through sheer hard work and indomitable spirit.

These realistic photographs have been taken by Sanjay Kumar, coordinator of SEWA Bharat. Involved with the SEWA movement for nearly nine years, Sanjay is completing his doctoral thesis on “Micro Finance Interventions Among Women Workers: A Comparative Study of SEWA in India and BRAC in Bangladesh” from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Each photo is accompanied by a brief notation. The exhibition focuses on the dreams of SEWA members to have a secure future for the next generation. It presents a real-life illustration of the lives of emancipated women from around the country, reinforcing the organisation’s philosophy of solidarity and collective struggle for self-sufficiency.

Taking advantage of his vast experience with the informal sector workers, Sanjay decided to share the stories of poverty-stricken women with the outer world. A passion for photography also helped Sanjay to showcase the lives of embroidery workers, salt workers, construction workers and tobacco workers from Gujarat, forest workers, street vendors and beedi workers from Madhya Pradesh and nursing assistants and canteen workers from Kerala.

The exhibition, which opened on March 15, is on up to March 25.

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