The Duke University Center for International Studies and the John Hope Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies are pleased to announced the opening of:

Pati
photographs by
Sohrab Hura

October 6th, 5.30 p.m.-7.00 p.m.
Franklin Center
2204 Erin Road
Duke University
Durham, NC

This is the first in an annual series of collaborations with the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, of which, Hura was a 2010 awardee. He has his B.A. Honors and M.A. both in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and has been the recipient of numerous Indian and international awards for his work including Indian Press Photo awards, China International Press Photography award and an honorable mention from Yann Geffroy. His worked has shown in Bangladesh, Japan, India, Cambodia, England, Switzerland and France. To date his focus has been on long-term projects such as the current show.

Pati explores the Indian government’s attempts to bring increased prosperity to rural areas. Only very recently has the economic boom of India begun to reach its citizens in rural areas who suffer some of the worst poverty conditions in the world and need such progress the most. Over three-fourths of India’s poor live in rural areas, with a majority of this population working as day agricultural laborers for less than a dollar a day. The introduction of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in 2005, which guarantees rural citizens 100 days of paid public work, began the first large government support system of the rural poor. But when water supplies are often a several mile journey, health care is a full day’s walk, and agricultural yield has steadily fallen due to global warming, this economic transformation of rural India is not only a long journey, but opens clashes between public and private interests and between potential workers and employers. Many rural worker still know nothing about the 2005 law, find that employers are slow with payments and that these short-term opportunities are adverse to local education and other social programs.

Hura’s photographs are a compelling narrative of the poors’ struggle to survive in this region of rural India.

The show is open 9.00 am to 5.00 pm, Monday through Friday and runs until October 16th.

For additional information, contact Rob Sikorski, r.sikorski [Email: r.sikorski #AT# duke.edu ]

  Arts, Asia, ethics, Franklin Center, gallery exhibition, human rights, India, Magnum Foundation, photography, poverty

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