Tamil Nadu teenagers take India’s employees in pictures

The old woman walks away from the distance, curls on a basket of basket surrounded by hundreds of cigarettes rolling with their hands.

The photo is one of the few people who are taken by Rashmitha T in the village of Tamil Nadu, who made traditional Indian cigarettes called Beedis.

“No one knows their job. They need to explain their unspoken stories,” said Rashmitha told the BBC.

His pictures were shown in the last exhibition about India’s employees, called the Unseen Prospective in the Egmore Museum in Chennai.

Tamil Nadu, who documented the lives of their parents or other adults, was adopted by 40 students of government-work schools.

The furnace workers emphasize the work of various welders, photos for grain, variety of images, various and rear planned work in India.

For example, many beedi rolliks are sensitive to lung damage and tuberculosis for their dangerous work.

“Their houses turn from tobacco, you can’t stay long there,” he sat on the edge of his neighbors on the edge of their homes.

For each 1,000 smoking, only 250 rupees ($ 2.90; £ 2.20) said.

In the state area of ​​the state, Jayaraj seized a photo of Pazhanihammal, a mother of Jayaraj. A clay and sand mixture pours into molds and makes the bricks manually.

Jayaraj had to open 2 because his mother began to work at midnight.

“Should start early to escape the sun in the afternoon,” he said.

He said that when he just started a photographed project, he said he really had difficulties to endure.

“My mother often complains of headaches, feet, and sometimes in the pain,” he said.

In the Madurai district, Gopika Lakshmi M, Muthuxnan, who sells goods from an old minibus, seized his father.

The father should get a dialysis twice a week after the kidney lost two years ago.

“Despite being in Dialysis, he drives the villages close to the villages,” said Lakshmi.

“We have no luxury to rest in the house.”

However, despite his difficult situation, his father said, “He seemed like a hero.” Gopika said.

It was not easy to take a picture with a professional camera, but he said that students were students after training for months.

“I learned how to open fire on the night, the shower speed and aperture,” Keerhthi living in the Tenkasi district.

Keerthi for his project chose to document the daily life of MutAlakshmi, the owner of a small shop in front of his homes.

“Baba is not good, so the mother looks both the shop and home,” he said. “He wakes up in 4 and works up to 11 o’clock.”

His photos describe their mother’s struggles, while traveling to long distances with the rising to the source through public buses.

“I wanted to show what a woman did to improve the lives of children,” he said.

Mukesh K, 4 days documented his work in a hearth with his father.

“My father stays here and only comes home only once a week,” he said.

Mukesh’s father works from 3 to 7 o’clock after a short rest of 3 and short rest. It earns a little sum about 500 rupees a day.

“There are no beds and mattresses in their rooms. He lies in the blank cardboard boxes in my father’s hearth,” he said. “He was a sun last year because he was working under the hot sun.”

Students aged 13-17, Tamil Nadu School of Education study various forms of art, including photography in the initiative of the Education Department.

“Students are socially responsible,” Muthamizh Kalalivizhi, Tamil Nadu’nun Governmental Schools State and NGO Foundation of Neelam Foundation.

“They documented people working around them. It is the beginning of social change in understanding their lives,” he said.

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