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Transgenders’ lives on The Kitab’s pages

| Sunday | 15th July, 2018

CHANDIGARH: With an intention to create awareness about marginalised communities in the social sphere through photographic documentation, ‘The Kitaab’, a photographic book festival returned to Chandigarh for a three-day exhibition. Otherwise, photographic exhibitions are very restrictive to art galleries, which only cater to the wine and cheese kind of audience. Whereas, we carry these exhibits to schools, slums, colleges and many other platforms,” said the founder and curator Manik Katyal. Our aim is to take photography and its expression to everyone and let them connect and interpret what they encounter in their own way. “The first edition of this festival took place in April 2018 in Dehradun.

CHANDIGARH: With an intention to create awareness about marginalised communities in the social sphere through photographic documentation, ‘The Kitaab’, a photographic book festival returned to Chandigarh for a three-day exhibition. It highlighted the lives of multiple transgender communities spread globally through the photographic books compiled by various internationally-known photographers, encapsulating the realm of their existence.The festival, which is led by Manik Katyal, a 28-year-old third-year law student from Dehradun, attempts to demystify various facets and identity of global transgender traditions, lifestyle, treatment, parallel existence through the works of numerous international photographers, giving a sneak peek into the lives of these people across 30 countries through as many as 23 books.Apart from the photographic documents, posters and quotes with first person accounts and interviews with third gender people have also been published. Being in its second edition, it wishes to sensitise people about the plight of transgenders of India, who are subjected to severe stigma and oppression, which is somewhat lesser in other countries. “The first edition of this festival took place in April 2018 in Dehradun. We decided to expand and come to Chandigarh this time. Our aim is to take photography and its expression to everyone and let them connect and interpret what they encounter in their own way. Otherwise, photographic exhibitions are very restrictive to art galleries, which only cater to the wine and cheese kind of audience. Whereas, we carry these exhibits to schools, slums, colleges and many other platforms,” said the founder and curator Manik Katyal. The works of various renowned names like Jan Moller Hansen, Lukas Houdek, Nelson Morales, Marriette Pathy Allan, Mark Seligar, Niztam Krimsky, Eric Pulitzer and Fiona Clark are part of the photography books put on display.The exhibition is on display at Student Centre, Panjab University, 11am onwards till Sunday.

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