Touch Untouchables - Raj Kumar Ram
Malgorzata Wakuluk | India, Ukraine, Moldavia
Photographer: Malgorzata Wakuluk
Exhibit Title: Touch Untouchables - Raj Kumar Ram
Location: India, Ukraine, Moldavia
Untouchables also called Dalits - it's colloquial term for the lowest social caste in India. It also includes people from outside the caste. Despite the fact that discrimination based on caste was outlawed by India’s constitution in 1950, the practice of ‘untouchability’ still dictates the order of modern life for millions living in India. Even in 21th Dalits face discrimination at almost every level, from access to education and medical facilities to restrictions on where they can live and what jobs they can have.
RAJ KUMAR RAM (Rajkumar) comes from a very small Haruijan community. This community deals with fallen cattle and animal skin products and is part of the lowest social caste in India, called the Dalits.. Rajkumar is around 30 years old, a wife and two children. He was born with paralysed legs. He earns money by begging in the streets of Varanasi to feed his family and school for his children . He is a very positive and smiling man and always is very proud of his son who learning in school. Rajkumar has hope for better life for his children.
Małgorzata Wakuluk lives in Poland. She is a choreographer by education; Artistic Manager by profession; Photographer by passion. She has been Photographing since 2016 and continues to this art still. For her, the most important thing in photography is always human beings, interpersonal relations and social inequality. At the moment she is working on a long timeproject related to the lowest casts in India- The Untouchables. Human emotions and their place in this world are what fascinates her in photography the most but mystic photography is the close to her heart too as it is able to stir the imagination and has no limits.
She is also the initiator of the space for Polish Women Photographers, which she has been running since July 2020.
Founder and Mentor:www.polishwomenphotographers.com
Curator (online exibition):www.vasa-project.com
e-mail: malgorzatawakuluk@gmail.com
phone: +48509718015
www.malgorzatawakulukphotography.pl
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