Indu Antony - Broken Strings
All of these images were photographed by Indu Antony. He was recording the lives of destitutes at a home in India. These inmates have been abandoned and/or have no family. 90 percent of the people who live here are mentally ill. Most of the ill patients were given up by their families because other family members were ashamed. Some were born into this home, the patients are all strangers to each other and have very little communication. These images are all black and white. This effect makes the images seem stark and somber, which fits in well with the theme because they are trying to convey a serious point. The photographer started to collect these images in April 2010 and this project has been ongoing since then. All of these images are displayed online in a gallery format. All these images have the same theme about people living in a home because they are all part of the same project and all taken in the same place.
This is an image of a women named Saraswati. She is in pain most of the time. She came to the home two and half years ago when her parents abandoned her here. She is mentally and physically challenged and even though she is in pain she kept smiling, but now it is so bad she cannot mask it.
These women are unable to speak but they always recognize the photographer with his camera and always manage to smile for him.
This person here is having ointment rubbed into their skin because they spend so much time in bed because they cannot do anything they get a lot of bad bed sores.
all these images are from http://www.photojournale.com/categories.php?cat_id=221
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