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Sona Hijda of Gully No1
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Initially she warned me not to take her pictures, as she thought I was shooting for telivision, would be noticed by her relatives, I told her I was a still photographer shooting for Internet.
But I guess the internet has a greater and an undying reach as compared to telivision.
Actually if I had funds I could really pay them for their time get their life stories, but I do not have such an agenda, I do not plan to write a book, I shot Hijdas , because it gives me a reason to penetrate the darkness of their lives, I pull my Hijdas from anonymity to make them appear on you monitor screen as human beings..
The Hijdas of India are very good and can be very bad..extreme qualities of survival.
I write so much about Hijdas it comes from within, I could be lousy reporter but I am a poet so I sense their inner thoughts, when I see a Hijda through my viewfinder I become a Hijda myself..
Yes.This is how I capture Hijdas with defective cameras and defective camera lens but my Hijdas live breathe, nothing not even lifes blur, lifes camera shake takes anything away from the Hijdas I shoot ..
Yes I would like to be in Marc De Clercqs shoes as he at this moment must be shooting the Hijdas at Laxmis house, cooking, eating, wooing Marc, the rest I shall give my fucked imagination rest.
Somebody asked me to start a Hijda Trust, but I left this matter with Laxmi my Hijda Guru.
If someone could sponsor me it would be a different matter ,to shoot Hijdas all over India..
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