About The Work
Zameen Asmaan Ka Farq (As far apart as the Earth is from the Sky )
Through photographs and texts the project 'Zameen Asmaan Ka Farq' documents the culture of touch between Indian men who live at the intersections of homosocial culture, friendship and love.
My fieldwork has taken me to urban centers, remote villages and tribal hamlets in sixteen Indian states. I collaborate with individuals from a wide range of castes, classes and religions to make analog, medium-format portraits and record our conversations (to date 120+ recorded conversations in 12 languages).
Quote on text sheet (8.5x11in.):
" The world will keep calling names even if you are a good guy.
What is good or bad we need to decide.
The society has stereotyped everything, that a man has to behave
like this and a women has to behave like this. And if there is
any little di erence the society will call names. The way someone
is they will call names accordingly, and not just that his family
will also be dragged in. And this a ects the person and also the
family members of that person.
And if we don’t face they will do more, because that becomes our
weakness ... And it only stops when we ourselves start accepting
ourselves that ‘yes, I am like that’. Otherwise they don’t stop."
Sudheer (with Vidiya), Sangli - 2018
About Marc Ohrem-Leclef
From The Magazine
Photograph
Archival Pigment Print from Color Negative, Archival Inkjet Print
Photograph: 21" x 15", Text sheet: 8.5" x11"
This work is signed by the artist on verso.
About The Work
Zameen Asmaan Ka Farq (As far apart as the Earth is from the Sky )
Through photographs and texts the project 'Zameen Asmaan Ka Farq' documents the culture of touch between Indian men who live at the intersections of homosocial culture, friendship and love.
My fieldwork has taken me to urban centers, remote villages and tribal hamlets in sixteen Indian states. I collaborate with individuals from a wide range of castes, classes and religions to make analog, medium-format portraits and record our conversations (to date 120+ recorded conversations in 12 languages).
Quote on text sheet (8.5x11in.):
" The world will keep calling names even if you are a good guy.
What is good or bad we need to decide.
The society has stereotyped everything, that a man has to behave
like this and a women has to behave like this. And if there is
any little di erence the society will call names. The way someone
is they will call names accordingly, and not just that his family
will also be dragged in. And this a ects the person and also the
family members of that person.
And if we don’t face they will do more, because that becomes our
weakness ... And it only stops when we ourselves start accepting
ourselves that ‘yes, I am like that’. Otherwise they don’t stop."
Sudheer (with Vidiya), Sangli - 2018
About Marc Ohrem-Leclef
From The Magazine
Edition of 5 with 2 AP.
- This work is framed. Frame measurements are 25.00" x 32.00" x 2.00".
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