Out for Blood / INDIA
2025 - ON GOING
Out for Blood is an on-going project on period poverty in India, where blood is both symbol and condemnation, and a natural biological phenomenon transforms into stigma, silence, and control, shaping lives, bodies, and futures. Through voices from Hindu, Muslim, and Adivasi communities, the project explores inequality, exclusion, violence, and lack of access to hygiene and education. Beyond a health issue, menstruation emerges as a matter of human rights and self-determination—reclaiming blood as a means to reclaim the body as a site of knowledge, resistance, and liberation.
Awards & Recognitions:
Trieste Photo Days — Mark Power Special Prize, Selected Photographer (2026)
Encontros da Imagem Portfolio Reviews, Selected Photographer (2026)
Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award, Shortlisted (2026)
Prix Révélation SAIF × La Kabine, Finalist (2026)
FotoSlovo — Trip/Essay Category, Silver Medal (2026)
World Report Award — Nonprofit Category, Festival della Fotografia Etica, Winner (2026)
ZEKE Award for Systemic Change, First Prize (2026)
Exhibitions:
Résilience, Galerie Joseph, Paris / France (November 2026)
Festival della Fotografia Etica, Lodi / Italy (September–October 2026)
Festival OFF Arles, Projection, ENSP, Arles / France (July 2026)
2026 ZEKE Award Exhibition, Bridge Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts / USA (March–April 2026)
Talks & Panels:
ZEKE Award Exhibition, Paris / France — Artist Talk & Winners Reception (November 13–14, 2026
Encontros da Imagem, Braga / Portugal — Public Presentation (October 2026)
Festival della Fotografia Etica, Lodi / Italy — Guided Visits (October 3–4, 2026)
SDN Visual Storytelling Festival — Panelist (April 1, 2026)
Festival del Ciclo Mestruale, Milan / Italy — Panel & Projection (May 2026)