Empowering the UNHEARD, UNSEEN.
" There's really no such thing as the 'Voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." Arundhati Roy, 2004 Sydney Peace Prize Winner The above quote speaks volume of unheard voices and unseen pictures depicting the true state of oppressed and unprivileged. Inspired from Photo Voice, a participatory research method that uses photography and group dialogue as a means for less privileged people to voice their issues or concerns in the community, this post highlights the strong impact of visual imagery accompanied with meaningful dialogues. The marginalised groups might be limited in their reach due to gender, caste, age, poverty, culture, language barriers or any other reason. This form of photography has been used for past two decades to reach to policy decision makers. "The lesson an image teaches does not reside in its physical structure, but rather how people interpret the image in Question." Carolyn C. Wang , Phot...