Thoothukkudi, Tamil Nadu •
Aug 22, 2023
Karuvadu: the wet world of dry fish
With sun, salt and skilled hands, women in Thoothukudi district of Tamil Nadu, preserve fish. And their own lives. A visit to Therespuram locality brings home the complexity of their universe
Photographs
M. Palani Kumar
M. Palani Kumar is Staff Photographer at People's Archive of Rural India. He is interested in documenting the lives of working-class women and marginalised people.
Palani has received the Amplify grant in 2021, and Samyak Drishti and Photo South Asia Grant in 2020. He received the first Dayanita Singh-PARI Documentary Photography Award in 2022. Palani was also the cinematographer of ‘Kakoos' (Toilet), a Tamil-language documentary exposing the practice of manual scavenging in Tamil Nadu.
Photo Editor
Binaifer Bharucha
Binaifer Bharucha is a freelance photographer based in Mumbai, and Photo Editor at the People's Archive of Rural India.
