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Homai Vyarawalla: India’s First Woman Photojournalist

by Seshu | Connecticut Children's Photographer | Kids Being Kids on April 27, 2009

in Documentary, History, India, Photojournalism

It was a magazine clipping that my mother handed me on my way back to the US that first introduced me to Homai Vyarawalla, India’s first woman photojournalist. In a field that is clearly overrun by men, I was easily charmed by her tenacity and resolve to also bear witness to India’s first waking moments as an independent nation.

Check out this film – it’s rather long at 70 minutes – to get acquainted with a legend in the field of photojournalism.

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