CRESCENDO - 2010
Completed after a return visit to Mumbai where I was born. I was saddened to experience the plight of disadvantaged women dressed in colourful sarees, yet sleeping on the streets or emerging from the slums dragging their toddlers to stagnant pools of water to be washed. Others carrying their naked babies stood in line patiently at a public tap hoping the water would not run out. For a woman to be forced to look for privacy to go to the toilet or to clean herself during menstruation is both humiliating and degrading, yet that is still the case. On another street, agitated women were demonstrating in a long procession, shouting slogans, carrying sticks, and demanding that the government offer better sanitary conditions for these women--clean water and toilets. I wanted to record the vitality of these women, let people hear the thunder in their voices and feel the earth tremble under their feet. After all, what they were screaming for was the basic human right that all women be given the respect and consideration they so rightly deserve.

Global Fund for Women Interview