With TAHA/ UNDP India
(Advocacy/ Documentation/ Gender)
ME BY ME was a self-documentation project for the sex workers to document their lives. A series of photography workshops with sex workers were conducted by TAHA and all the participants were then facilitated with a camera. Me by Me puts together the results of the endeavor. Centred around their lives, the living spaces, their children, their fight for survival; the coffee table book is a moving documentary-in-print of their hidden worlds.
Creating a strong collection documenting their own lives with real visual information from the lives of the sex workers was a challenge both in terms of consent and content. The book was hence divided into themes of representation, homes, dreams and themes close to the lives of the participants that made the book a very strong advocacy tool opening a world of lives of the ostracized or marginal.
