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Sohrab Hura on his Dilemmas Photographing the Marginalized

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Sohrab Hura INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Kaap Singh, an unemployed father... © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Jharkand. 2005. Two brothers toil hard for subsistence on their small piece of land in Bokaro. The soil is infertile and with the absence of irrigation as well, hardly anything grows. Such a (...)
Sohrab Hura India. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. An inside view of the sparse home of one of the most economically stable families in the tribal village of Ubadgarh in Pati Block of Madhya Pradesh. Migration would usu (...)
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. Women break rocks in an MGNREGA worksite. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. At dawn, women of a family wake up early to finish some of the household chores after which they will help the men of the family in tilling the little patch of land tha (...)
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Orissa. 2006. Ganesh Banara was one of the survivors. He was shot through his stomach. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Orissa. 2006. In Kalinganagar what was earlier predominantly a tribal region had been replaced by a colony of steel giants. Since Indian independence an estimated 15,00,000 people have been (...)
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Bihar. 2005. Punaram and Mupphat, the puppet, talk to dalit women workers at a ‘Food for Work’ site in Hisua. The Rozgar Adhikar Yatra, a people’s movement against unempl (...)
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. An old man working at a MGNREGA worksite. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura In Robertsganj after a Rozgar Adhikar Yatra rally, villagers loaded up on tractors to return home. Women provided tremendous support to the movement. Uttar Pradesh, India. 2005. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Chhatisgarsh. 2005. In Sarguja displaced tribals from the Hirakund region in the neighbouring state of Orissa listen intently as the 'Rozgar Adhikar Yatra' members talk to them about the mov (...)
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Rajasthan. 2006. Women workers come together in searing heat at a newly opened NREGA worksite to listen to an activist speak to them about their right to work. Almost 4 decades ago this regi (...)
Sohrab Hura In my mother's room; where a painting was hung once, the wall just peeled away. In 1999 she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Her condition is a cyclical one and when her condition deterio (...)
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. A woman tries to mend her make shift home while out on migration in Shivpuri. She along her relatives, both close and distant had migrated from the neighbouring distric (...)
Sohrab Hura Women workers huddle together to give in their attendance at the worksite. Madhya Pradesh. India. 2006. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura Ma smokes incessantly. On her bad days sometimes she doesn't believe that I'm her son. India. 2006. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura INDIA. Madhya Pradesh. 2006. After having worked at a MGNREGA site where they helped in building check dams, women workers wait anxiously outside the local Panchaya (village committee) office to be (...)
Sohrab Hura India. Barwani. 2014. Earth. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura India. Barwani. 2013. House. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura India. Barwani. 2014. A meeting. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura India. Barwani. 2013. Comb. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura India. Barwani. 2014. Sleep. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura India. Barwani. 2014. Newborn chick. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura India. Barwani. 2014. Umrao’s brother with his daughter. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos
Sohrab Hura India. Barwani. 2013. Ranjana after the sleep. © Sohrab Hura | Magnum Photos