'I have always been drawn to 'odd' women. I feel an affinity, a
resonance with women who don't fit the norm - perhaps recognising
aspects of myself - and this is reflected in my photographic work.'
Sheba Chhachhi is a photographer, women's rights activist and an
installation artist. Based in New Delhi, she has exhibited her
works widely in India and internationally, transforming pressing
contemporary issues into compelling, evocative works of art. The
powerful photographs reproduced here are selected from three major
series, co-curated with her subjects . Seven Lives and a Dream
spans decades of engagement with, and participation in, the
feminist movement. Initiation Chronicle (from Ganga's Daughters)
reveals the lives of a group of women sadhus (religious
renunciates): each woman in the series subverts conventional
assumptions about gender, sexuality, domesticity and female piety.
In the 1990s, Chhachhi was one of the first female photographers to
photograph women in conflict-ridden Kashmir, resulting in The Green
of the Valley is Khaki. Interweaving the mythic and the social, her
work, as she puts it, 'is really about opening up a conversation,
in the process of creating as well as sharing, to invite people to
think about personal, social and public concerns, primarily around
feminism and ecology.' The Tate Photography Series is a celebration
of international photography in the Tate collection and an
introduction to some of the greatest photographers at work today.
With the direct involvement of living photographers in
collaboration with photography curators, these books showcase the
best and most notable images taken across the globe, from city
streets to seashores, moving across landscapes and through
subcultures, in a visual travelogue of our world. Each book
contains a new conversation between curator and photographer and is
prefaced with a short introduction. The theme for the first four
titles is Community and Solidarity. Also available in this series
are: Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (978-1-84976-800-9) Sabelo Mlangeni
(978-1-84976-802-3) Liz Johnson Artur (978-1-84976-801-6)
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