Framing Reinvention
Framing Reinvention is a series of a photo essays from educators, storytellers and students across India who have shown us how learning is being reinvented in the face of inequity. Scroll to explore each photo essay.
by Shefali Rafiq
Shefali Rafiq is a journalist and documentaryphotographer from Kashmir whose work focuseson gender, climate change, conflict, andunderreported human rights issues.
This photo essay explores how education is reinvented under constraint as worsening water scarcity in rural Maharashtra forces adolescent girls into daily household labor. It examines whose learning is sacrificed when survival takes precedence, documenting the resilience of girls who carry their ambitions forward through memory and notebooks kept at home
by Vijay
Vijay is a photographer and storyteller who runs Gufa Labs, a photolab in Ahmedabad that showcases the benefits of analog photography.
This photo essay uses infrared and expired film to document the reimagined landscape of Kashmir through the visibility of its women within educational institutions. It captures resolute young women in classrooms, reinventing a reality that marks a profound shift from the margins toward an honest metric of progress.
by Sapan Taneja
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Sapan is a writer, editor, videographer and the film Programme Lead at Nazaria Arts Collective. At Nazaria, students from marginalized communities are provided high-quality media training and civic education.
This photo essay captures the immense joy and collective chaos of students at Nazaria Arts Collective as they move from being subjects to becoming storytellers who frame their own worlds. It documents the in-between space where learning and creation is alive, allowing young people to see their ideas staged and their voices amplified with intention.
by students of Hum Dekhenge Human Rights Lab
Hum Dekhenge Human Rights Lab is an initiative that focuses on providing Human Rights education to youth and acts as a platform for them to raise their voices through artivism. Credits: Tejswini, Sanskar, Shahid, Vedant, Aniket, Arjun, Sanghamitra Yashaswi, Ruchi, Chandan Jyoti and Sujan
This photo essay, clicked by students from the Hum Dekhenge Human Rights Lab, captures the moment when youth from marginalized youth trade the weight of being misunderstood for the power of being seen. It documents the electric gravity of their process as they move from being "bad kids" to storytellers who critique, capture, and change their own worlds.