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INDIA


2003

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INDIA
2003

Rajasthan

“It’s better to be a boy. A good boy goes to school and can do any type of job, travel, go where he likes without asking anyone. Good or bad, a young girl has to stay at home.” Pushpa

Abstracts

"Pushpa is a young untouchable from Rajasthan, who I met in a literacy association supported by UNESCO. She dreams of a non-arranged marriage, a profession other than being a housewife. (…) Earlier, I’d been introduced to a peasant known for carrying out a solo crusade against arranged marriages. She faced permanent threats from those around her. This poor woman agreed to meet us. Straight away, I knew that she’d provide a magnificent, powerful portrait. 

But I had to renounce this project when she suddenly turned down my request. The night before our arrival, enemy villagers had committed a grave act of hostility that stooped to the worst form of cruelty: they had put a dead cow in her field!"

Extract from Zoé Zoé, Femmes du mondes, 2007, Éditions Gallimard

Works

INDIA 2460
Cour de la maison de Pushpâ, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
57 x 74 cm

INDIA 2487
Pushpâ, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
33 x 41 cm

INDIA 3511
Pushpâ 2, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Gouache on paper
84 x 42 cm

INDIA 2470
La maison de Pushpâ, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Gouache on paper
46 x 37 cm

INDIA 2472
Hira, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
40 x 30 cm

INDIA 2474
Hira 2, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
24 x 36 cm

INDIA 2476
Hira 3, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
42 x 64 cm

INDIA 2478
Hira 4, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Gouache enhanced silver print
30 x 40 cm

INDIA 2483
Hira 5, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Gouache on paper
66 x 42 cm

INDIA 2485
Hira 6, 2003

Rajasthan, India
Pastel on paper
66 x 42 cm

Maps

INDIA 2488
Map of India and Bangladesh, 2003

Gouache on paper
80 x 120 cm

Making-of

Film by Marc Jampolsky

Photo by Delphine Bole

Books

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