Transportraits: Women and Mobility in the City (2010)
An exhibition by Jagori, curated by Gauri Gill, to coincide with the Delhi Declaration on Women's Safety.
Alliance Francaise Gallery, November 22nd – 24th 2010
Including the artists Amruta Patil, Priya Sen, Ruhani Kaur and Uzma
Mohsin; and the collectives Blank Noise and Lucida, in collaboration
with the young people of Madanpur Khadar. The show includes a wide
selection of entries from the public - photographs as well as
testimonies and drawings, contributed by professionals as well as lay
people. The exhibit will travel to schools and colleges across the
country later.
The artist traveled across India to photograph twenty five of the activists profiled in the book, and later helped Sangat put together a traveling exhibit that was on view in New Delhi and traveled to various other cities within India, including Kashmir and the North East.
Millions of women are engaged daily in working towards a better
future. Without regard for their own safety, they are active on behalf
of the community's well-being. They call for reconciliation, demand
justice, and rebuild what has been destroyed. They work on the front in
crisis and war regions, as well as in the background all over the world.
The project and book 1000 Peace Women Across the Globe have tried to
draw the world’s attention to these women and their thus far nearly
invisible, but highly important work, and to have them nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize 2005. The book introduces the 1000 women who were
carefully chosen to represent the millions doing similar work around the
world. Each one is presented on a double page, with a short biography
and most of the women with a portrait photograph. Both, images and
texts, were compiled by local journalists and authors, as well as by
academics and members of organizations.
1000 Peace Women Across the Globe is the ultimate manifesto of the
Peace Women and will become a reference guide for NGOs, governments,
peace and women’s networks and relief organizations as well as a general
audience interested in grassroots movements working towards the growth
of democratic civil society.
Published by Scalo Publishers; illustrated edition edition (March 30,
2006). Hardcover: 1073 pages. Language: English. 7.8 x 5.2 x 2.4
inches.