"Women of Kashmir."

What happens when a landscape, long defined by its political shifts, is reimagined through the lens of those usually found on its margins? Perhaps, an honest metric of a communityʼs progress is the visibility of its women within the walls of its educational institutions.

 

This photo essay, shot on an Ilford SFX infrared film and 20-year-old expired Fujifilm, attempts to document this. Swipe through this photo essay to see how the photographer looks for frames that show young women in classrooms, resolute, attentive, reinventing a reality that may not have been true for them a few generations ago.