Jari Mari by Shabnam

Nazara (which means vista, view, sight) is a collaborative project of Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Sahyog, an organisation that works with young people and has a School Without Walls programme in two ‘slums’ (Jari Mari and Dindoshi)  in Mumbai. Most of the students of Sahyog are Muslim girls/young women who have dropped out of school.

Smile! by Parveen

Yeh Shahar Hamara Hai

As a part of  Nazara, we conducted photography workshops in both locations for two small groups of girls and male youth, along with the MA second year students of Media and Cultural Studies. As a follow up, students from CMCS will partner with students of Sahyog. These groups of two or three will together explore visually a space/theme of their choice within the city, within the broad theme “Yeh Shahar Hamara Hai” (This City is Ours).

The process was documented on video too. Later, we propose to have an online exhibition of all the material generated as well as physical exhibitions in TISS, Jari Mari and Dindoshi. Some of the phtographs of the worskshop are reproduced here.

Air India

Photography workshop schedules:
Dindoshi: Sunday, Sept 7, 2008, 9am -6pm- followed by an Iftaar party with the participants
Jari Mari: Saturday Sept 13, same time

Water Melon Seller by Asma

Jari Mari Workshop by Nagma

Nazara Project Co-ordination

CMCS: KV Nagesh, Shilpa Phadke, Anjali Monteiro,  KP Jayasankar  (http://cmcs.tiss.edu/people.html)

Sahyog: Neha Madhiwala (http://sahyogchehak.org/index.php)

Nazara  Participants: CMCS

Ashwini Falnikar, Karuna D’souza, Nandita Thomas, Nikhil Titus, Pooja Das Sarkar, Sanjay Pratap Singh, Shalini Nirmal, Shephalika Mishra and Smita Lakra (http://cmcs.tiss.edu/students.html)

Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India

Sahyog, Jari Mari, Andheri Kurla Road,Kurla (West), Mumbai