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Basically, the thought behind our Papu Photo Project is this: on the one hand we have the ravishing beauty of Papu, who sustains her family (last year she gave birth to her third child) as a impromptu photo model. On the other hand, we have nameless women who forever lost their beauty through violence inflicted upon them by their husband and mother-in-law. Women who, because of insufficient dowry, have been purposely set afire and are killed or mutilated for life. The Papu Photo Project is meant to support the work of the Nagwa Foundation, which provides reconstructive surgery for these dowry victims, circulates information, organizes educative street theatre and public debate, enabling women and children to freely express themselves and stand up for their rights. The photographers who join our project have agreed to share their photographs of Papu with us, in order to organize an exhibition, publish a photobook and art cards. Part of the
proceeds go to the support of dowry victims in India.
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