Who Was She ?

The beauty of photography lies in capturing and portraying what is in between the seen and the unseen .Photographs portray a vision,an outlook or a perspective towards life that cannot be conveyed through words or songs. It is the pictures that speak when you run out of words. 

Through photographs we preserve,protect and portray our history, your history. 

 Photographs, are the voices of the unheard.

10 iconic photographs of women by eminent photojournalists.

"AFGHAN GIRL"

Photographer -Steve McCurry

 National Geographic Society,on Kodachrome 64 color slide film, with a NikonFM2 camera.

Her piercing sea-green eyes became a symbol of the 1980's Afghan conflict and of the refugee situation worldwide and in them you could read the tragedy of a land drained by war. The picture very neatly  captures the boldness in her eyes, yet shows her subtlety and shyness. The picture of the AFGHAN GIRL, later identified as  Sharbat Gula was taken in a refugee camp in Pakistan. 

 "CIVIL RIGHTS"

Photographer- Abbas

Young women attend a women's liberation rally in Miami in 1972.

"IN A COFFEE HOUSE"

Photographer- Abbas

This picture was taken in IRAN, Tehran in June 2001 and it captures women in their unrestricted space in a casual meeting inside a fashionable coffee house.

            "NO-DEFORESTATION" 

Photographer-Stuart Franklin USA

 California. Julia "BUTTERFLY" in a 200 foot ancient redwood tree named "Luna". She has lived in the sequoia "Luna" for the past year to protect it from deforestation in 1998.

                                             "MIGRANT MOTHER"    

                                      Photographer- Dorothea Lange 

Florence Owens Thompson, a woman whose picture became the symbol of poverty during the Great Depression.

"A PLACE TO REST "

Photographer-Robert Capa

In SPAIN, 1939. Barcelona.

 At a refugee transit center during the evacuation of the city a young woman makes herself comfortable around baggage. during the Spanish civil war.

"TO SURVIVE"

Photographer- Steve Mccurry

In, INDIA, Bombay, 1993. A poverty struck mother and child ask for alms through a taxi window during the monsoon.

 "CUTTING THROUGH"

Photographer- Abbas

In MEXICO, State of Morelos. A sugar cane cutter holds her machete. Taken in 1984.

A sugar cane cutter,  through the autocratic rule. 

"OCCUPY WALL STREET" 

Photographer-Christopher Anderson

USA. New York City. 17 November 2011. Police arrest a female demonstrator involved in the  Occupy Wall Street movement on 17th November 2011 in NYC, United States Of America.

 "THE WOUNDED ANGEL" 

Photographer- Abbas

In BRAZIL,Bahia state,Salvador. District of Pelhourinho,1996. A "wounded angel" in the Church of Nossa Senhora de Rosario.