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  1. Briski, a documentary photographer, went to Kolkata to photograph prostitutes. While there, she befriended their children and offered to teach the children photography to reciprocate being allowed to photograph their mothers. The children were given cameras so they could learn photography and possibly improve their lives.

    • $3.5 million (USA)
    • Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
    • John McDowell
    • Shanti Das, Puja Mukerjee, Avijit Halder, Suchitra
  2. Jul 30, 2020 · Born into brothels : photographs by the children of Calcutta : Briski, Zana : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Briski, Zana. Publication date. 2004. Topics. Children of prostitutes -- India -- Calcutta, Children of prostitutes -- India -- Calcutta -- Pictorial works, Children -- India -- Calcutta -- Social conditions.

  3. Aug. 12, 2005. Correction Appended. "We are one soul and nine bodies." That is how Avijit, one of the irrepressible children in the Oscar-winning documentary "Born Into Brothels," summed up...

  4. Jan 17, 2004 · The film features the photographs the children capture, depicting daily life in the Sonagachi district. It also covers later events, including opportunities for the children’s education and exhibitions of the photographs they took. Born Into Brothels won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature along with twenty other film festival awards.

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  5. Jul 1, 2005 · by Zana Briski (Author) 4.7 27 ratings. See all formats and editions. A powerful story that unfolds in the red-light district of Calcutta: a photographer that becomes a teacher and the extraordinary children she meets who learn to dream with cameras in their hands.

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  6. Oct 28, 2022 · An illustration of two photographs. Images. An illustration of a heart shape Donate. An illustration of text ellipses. ... born-into-brothels-calcuttas-red-light-kids ...

  7. Mar 11, 2005 · Documentary photographer Zana Briski journeyed into Calcutta's underworld to photograph the city's prostitutes. In return, she offered to teach the prostitutes' children the basics of photography so that the kids could document their own lives on the streets of one of the world's poorest cities.

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