topics: |  india | gender | photography | children | prostitution

Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman did a powerful documentary on children from
the Calcutta brothels, which won the best documentary oscar 2005 (website).

this book chronicles eight kids from these calcutta brothels and how they
are transformed when provided with the opportunity to record their
environments with a camera.  Of the children profiled, Avijit has taken up
photography as a profession, and is training at one of Calcutta's leading
schools.  Other kids are: Gour, Kochi, Manik, Puja, Shanti, Suchitra,
Tapasi.