My World, My View: Photographs by the Girls of SOS Bahini, Pokhara, Nepal |
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Sue Carpenter
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Pages: 114 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9994624334
Pub: Asha Publications
Pub date: 2007-06
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 216664
Reader Reviews:
Amazing photographs (1/1 people found this helpful)
This is such a beautiful book - I have bought 3 copies for friends. Its incredible that some of the girls are only 7 they have composed amazing photos. A great present for anyone who enjoys photography and a really inspiring story
Viewed from under. (1/1 people found this helpful)
Leafing through this book you would think that you are looking at the work of some leading photojournalist. In fact all the pictures are taken by children, some aged as young as six, who had never used a camera before. A wonderful, insightful and uplifting document of these children's lives - which you can help by buying this book!
Inspiring collection of photographs (0/0 people found this helpful)
This is absolutely incredible! An amazingly vivid collection of photographs, and each of the girls has such an inspiring story to tell. I would urge everybody to buy this book. Wonderful colours. I really want to go to Nepal now!
Vivid and captivating vision of girls in Nepal (3/3 people found this helpful)
With introductions by Dr Andrew Hall, British Ambassador to Nepal, and John Fry, Director of the British Council Nepal, this full-colour 114-page book contains more than 150 photographs, plus quotes and testimonies by 22 girls who participated in the My World, My View photo project.
Girls in Nepal have no voice. They are not encouraged to have opinions or develop their individuality. Those from disadvantaged backgrounds are at the bottom of the heap. Photography has proved a valuable tool for encouraging self-expression and building self-esteem. The nine-month My World, My View photography project was set up and led by Sue Carpenter, a British journalist, photographer and trustee of the British charity Asha-Nepal, to help such girls in Nepal to find their voice and develop the confidence to use it.
The 22 participants, aged 6 to 17, live in the care of SOS (Save our Sisters) Bahini, an organisation in Pokhara that provides family homes to girls who were abused, neglected, abandoned, homeless, orphaned or in other desperate situations. None of them had ever handled a camera before. They were given cameras (both conventional and digital) and photography tuition and encouraged to document their world through their own eyes.
Their work proved so engaging and vibrant that, after exhibiting their work in Kathmandu, the British Council in Nepal funded this book of their photographs and testimonies, My World, My View. This is an important outcome for the girls, to validate their talents and to give them a means of earning their own income. It has also given them a forum to address some of the issues facing females in Nepal - gender discrimination, violence, abuse, child labour. Proceeds from book sales go to Asha-Nepal to create a new SOS Bahini home for more girls. A royalty will also go direct to the participants for their individual savings accounts.
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