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Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Sep 07, 2023

‘My students tell their stories through photos’

Holding a camera for the first time are children of sanitation workers, fisherwomen and others in classes and workshops by PARI photographer M. Palani Kumar, teacher with a camera

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Author

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.

Translator

Kiruba H. B.

Kiruba H. B. is currently pursuing her Masters in English at Madras University. She is a freelance translator of Tamil to English and writer whose works have appeared at TheOpenDosa and TheNewsMinute.

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Satya Sainath

Satya Sainath is from Yanam, Puducherry. A rural development professional he has been working in Telangana and Odisha and enjoys giving voices and photographing their success and challenges.