‘Girls, tomorrow, and the earth’ is about the lives of young girls and women in a village in Kargil’s Suru valley. It offers a feminine account of a masculinised terrain.
This handmade artist's book created during a residency at the Maze Collective Studio in New Delhi, combines original albumen prints, cyanotype prints, and fragments of writing.
Learning these 19th-century processes—albumen printmaking, cyanotype, was an act of slowing down.
Albumen printmaking was one of the first methods of commercial mass photographic printing, dominant until the early 1900s. Working with it, and learning cyanotype from a fellow resident, offered a respite from the overwhelming world of digital images and a return to photography's early, tactile memory.
The book is now part of the Alkazi Foundation's collection.