Call for photos: “Female Friendships and Activism in South Asia”

Friendships are an important feature in social and political movements and in civil society work. The emotional bonds, a sense of shared values and histories, and the conviviality that friendships entail are important in building and sustaining communities of solidarity. Prajnya Archives is calling for you to contribute to an online exhibit on ‘Friendship and Activism in South Asia’. As a community archive focused on documenting women’s participation in public life, we ask for photos that document female friendships in the context of activism: these could be photos of individual friends and groups of friends in the context of an act of political mobilisation (like a protest or demonstration) or it can be photos of/with activist friends taken in private settings. such as a casual get-together. We ask that these photos be accompanied by a story of the photo and the friend in question.

This is an open and continuous call with no deadline.

Submission criteria:

• We welcome photos of female friends, and ask you to send us an accompanying story.
  • The submission must include: the subject of the image, place, date, context, approximate date when the photo was taken. 
  • Some optional details: A relevant story about the subject, for instance. 
• You may submit both historical and new images which you own. That is, you can scan old photos or you can take new photographs to submit.
  • The person making the submission needs to have the right to submit the photo. Submission is confirmation of this right as far as we are concerned.
  • Please note: It is vital that the subject of your photo has given the photographer implicit or explicit permission to take the photo/ use the photograph for this purpose. 
• The images must be of high quality (at least 300 dpi). 
  • Cell phone images will be accepted provided the image is clear even in an enlarged view.
• Images from all over Southasia are welcome – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka–as well as from the Southasian diaspora.
• Please note: To be complete entries must include contributor’s name, age, address/contact info, and narrative with essential details.