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Acid Attack Survivor Calendar Shows Beauty Is Much More Than a Pretty Face
A new calendar featuring women on every page launched in India this week to celebrate International Women’s Day. But it isn’t full of conventional pinups.
Bello, a Spanish word meaning beautiful and the name of the calendar, showcases 11 survivors of acid violence.
It is produced by Stop Acid Attacks, a New Delhi-based rehabilitation group for survivors of a form of violence that uses acid as a weapon, mostly against women.
Ashish Shukla, co-founder of the group says the calendar is designed to show that “beauty is much more than just a pretty face.”
India has some of the highest-recorded incidences of acid violence. Women are often targeted for turning down advances from men, rejecting marriage proposals or for failing to provide enough money and gifts to their husband’s family in marriages, among other kinds of domestic disputes.
A 2011 study on acid attacks in some South Asian countries said: “Acid attackers aim for a woman’s face in an attempt to destroy what many members of society consider to be one of her most important assets—her beauty.”
Shot over a period of six months by three photographers in eight different locations, the calendar features the gleaming smiles of the women in locations “that best define their dreams,” said Mr. Shukla.
In the photograph below, for instance, 17-year-old Dolly, who goes by one name, stood wearing a medic’s coat holding a book titled “I want to be a Doctor.” Shot in Dolly’s hometown Agra, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, the photograph underscores her aspiration of running her own medical clinic.
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Acid Attack Survivor Calendar Shows Beauty Is Much More Than a Pretty Face - India Real Time - WSJ
A new calendar featuring women on every page launched in India this week to celebrate International Women’s Day. But it isn’t full of conventional pinups.
Bello, a Spanish word meaning beautiful and the name of the calendar, showcases 11 survivors of acid violence.
It is produced by Stop Acid Attacks, a New Delhi-based rehabilitation group for survivors of a form of violence that uses acid as a weapon, mostly against women.
Ashish Shukla, co-founder of the group says the calendar is designed to show that “beauty is much more than just a pretty face.”
India has some of the highest-recorded incidences of acid violence. Women are often targeted for turning down advances from men, rejecting marriage proposals or for failing to provide enough money and gifts to their husband’s family in marriages, among other kinds of domestic disputes.
A 2011 study on acid attacks in some South Asian countries said: “Acid attackers aim for a woman’s face in an attempt to destroy what many members of society consider to be one of her most important assets—her beauty.”
Shot over a period of six months by three photographers in eight different locations, the calendar features the gleaming smiles of the women in locations “that best define their dreams,” said Mr. Shukla.
In the photograph below, for instance, 17-year-old Dolly, who goes by one name, stood wearing a medic’s coat holding a book titled “I want to be a Doctor.” Shot in Dolly’s hometown Agra, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, the photograph underscores her aspiration of running her own medical clinic.
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Acid Attack Survivor Calendar Shows Beauty Is Much More Than a Pretty Face - India Real Time - WSJ
