Fazal Sheikh

Ladli

HC 23 x 27 cm.
Steidl 2007
EURO 25.00

In India it costs a poor family 50 rupees, to hire a midwife to administer the birth of a child. For an additional ten rupees, the parents are assured that the birth of a girl will be met with an act of infanticide by the midwife. The alternative for many is an institution like the Delhi orphanage in which Fazal Sheikh's work on the predicament of the girl-child in India began - 99% of that orphanage's population are girls. By delving into the story of the girl-child, Sheik renders the other side of the spectrum of women in India.

Andere Titel von Fazal Sheikh:

The Victor Weeps

Ausstellungen von/mit Fazal Sheikh

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27.01. - 26.03.2010: Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, , Bogotá, CO
07.11. - 07.12.2009: 8th Bamako Encounters, Biennial of African Photography- Borders , Maison Africaine de la Photogr, Bamako, RMM
10.10. - 31.01.2010: Beloved Daughters , Museum of Photographic Arts Mo, San Diego, USA
10.10. - 31.01.2010: Beloved Daughters , Museum of Photographic Arts Mo, San Diego, USA
05.09. - 15.11.2009: Darkside 2 - Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed / Fotografische Macht und fotografierte Gewalt, Krankheit und Tod , Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH