#FaunaOfMirrors: The Face of Another

By Akhila Vijayaraghavan (IND)

Fierce is an ongoing project started in 2017 by Akhila Vijayraghavan to explore the strength, joy, and ownership that physical activity brings to women within the Indian context.

Having been an active sports-person from an early age, she intimately understands the connection between movement and self-perception.

She hopes that Fierce will kick-start a dialogue on body positivity, especially among young girls who deal with unrealistic expectations of the female body. Read more

By Arpan Mukherjee (IND)

A discussion was initiated among a group of dark complexion boys and girls on their experience of being dark. Issues about discrimination on the basis of skin colour and its possible reasons were discussed. 

Apart from the general thought that it derived from our colonial past, they also think that in our society it has a roll in terms of power demonstration.

Arpan Mukherjee used wet plate collodion and albumen print process to make their portrait, which has an established connection to anthropological photographic documentation process of Indian race and tribes by British photographers. Read more

By Chan-Hyo Bae (South Korea)

From a historical or social point of view, the difference of culture and language has been one of the most important standards that make a distinction between various social classes.

Furthermore, this historical and cultural prejudice caused another prejudice against social positions in capitalist societies, transmitted from generation to generation by education or other social conventions.

Bae, in this self portrait series, expresses his feelings as an Asian immigrant and his feeling of alienation or the chaos of identity. Read more