Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Updated: September 16, 2019 8:03:45 am
Artist Rohit Saha’s photobook 1528 captures Manipur’s encounters with violence
Published by Alkazi Foundation, Rohit Saha’s photobook is the result of three-year research into Sharmila’s journey, the Malom massacre and victims of alleged fake encounters in Manipur.
A black-and-white photograph of human rights activist Irom Sharmila, with no tubes sucking into her body, surrounded by only a handful of followers when she launched her party, Peoples’ Resurgence and Justice Alliance in 2016, mushrooms in visual artist Rohit Saha’s book 1528. Saha’s photobook, which was on view at Art Heritage Gallery, Delhi, contains a heart-rending image of a young boy crying during his father’s funeral in Manipur, after losing him to police cross firing. Next to it is a frame full of Manipuri child soldiers, aged between 12 and 15, picked up by insurgent groups, standing tall with pride and displaying unflinching emotion. Passport-sized photos of 10 civilians allegedly gunned down by the 8th Assam Rifles in Malom in 2000, who prompted Sharmila to undertake her 16-year hunger strike, stand as ghostly reminders of the state’s turbulent past in the last 33 years.
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