{"id":1203,"date":"2015-10-10T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1203"},"modified":"2015-10-10T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T17:06:07","slug":"from-eunuch-to-unique-this-photo-story-on-mona-ahmed-is-incredibly-poignant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1203","title":{"rendered":"From Eunuch To \u2018Unique\u2019: This Photo Story On Mona Ahmed Is Incredibly Poignant"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dayanita<\/a>
Dayanita Singh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cShe wanted to tell the story of being neither here nor there, neither male nor female, and finally, neither a eunuch nor someone like me. She would always ask me, \u201dTell me: what am I?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

World-renowned photographer Dayanita Singh\u2019s\u00a0Myself Mona Ahmed\u00a0is a bold, empathetic glimpse into the life of Mona Ahmed, who belongs to one of India\u2019s many visible-yet-ignored communities, the eunuchs. Feared by some and revered by others for their supposed mysticism throughout Indian history, it would be unfair to say that they haven\u2019t been documented sensitively through various mediums in recent times. Yet none cut quite as deep as Singh\u2019s poignant portrayal of Mona over the course of so many years, parallel to their deepening relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Dayanita<\/a>
Dayanita Singh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The two first met in 1989, when Singh was on a shooting assignment for London\u2019s\u00a0The\u00a0Times. Speaking of the assignment in the introduction to her book, Singh says it started out as \u00a0\u201ca way to establish my credentials as a photojournalist, to show that I was on par with the boys in my male-dominated profession. When you work for the media, which tend to see India only as either exotic or disastrous, a story on eunuchs is a must, along with a story on prostitution, child labour, dowry deaths, and child marriage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the assignment didn\u2019t proceed as planned. When Mona realised that the project was for the\u00a0Times\u00a0in London, she was concerned and asked that the film be returned to her\u2014she had relatives in the UK who did not know she was a eunuch. Singh returned the film and Mona promptly threw it into the trash. While that put an end to the assignment, it was the beginning of a friendship whose importance in Singh\u2019s life was not imminently clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Dayanita<\/a>
Dayanita Singh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

See the whole article and more picture on<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/homegrown.co.in\/from-eunuch-to-unique-this-photo-story-on-mona-ahmed-is-incredibly-poignant<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Dayanita Singh studied Visual Communication at the\u00a0National Institute of Design<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Ahmedabad<\/a>\u00a0and Documentary Photography at the\u00a0International Center of Photography<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0New York<\/a>.\u00a0She\u00a0is best known for her captivating photographs of the less obvious side of Indian society. Her images of people working, celebrating, or resting show Indian life without embellishment and capture insights into contemporary life that often challenge the disaster or exotic stereotypes of the West.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.dayanitasingh.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cShe wanted to tell the story of being neither here nor there, neither male nor female, and finally, neither a eunuch nor someone like me. She would always ask me, \u201dTell me: what am I?\u201d World-renowned photographer Dayanita Singh\u2019s\u00a0Myself Mona Ahmed\u00a0is a bold, empathetic glimpse into the life of Mona Ahmed, who belongs to one … Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1210,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}