A 19 -year -old mechanic in Nigeria who maintains water supply, a revolutionary jazz guitarist from Sudan, women plunging in sixty in sixty South Korea, a watermelon seller in Indonesia who, at 82, is the main winner of his family.
They are part of the subjects of the photograph exhibition, “the spray of women: from daily life to world heroes”, which opens on March 8, in honor of International Women’s Day, at Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, in Kentucky, and will end until January 19. The photos represent the winners of the third of the center of the annual stem of annual photographers of annual photographers.
The objective each year is to “highlight the question of gender equality,” said Amelia McGrath, archivist of the center and responsible for the collections. He also honors the fact that Muhammad Ali – the professional boxer, social activist and philanthropist for which the center is appointed – was appointed world messenger of the United Nations Peace in 1986.
The past exhibitions have focused on subjects such as voting rights and women in various careers. This year’s exhibition highlights “emblematic women”, with photos demonstrating how women of different ages in the world have inspired, contributed, autonomized and built their communities, their families and the life of others.
Here is a selection of portraits presented in the exhibition with descriptions of their subjects drawn from the information provided by the photographers.
A watermelon farmer who raises his family
Now 82 years old, Mbok Sutinah – Mbok is the Javanese nickname of an older woman – sold the watermelon to support her family since the death of her husband in 1987. The watermelon comes from the watermelon farm of her late husband, which Mbok continued to cultivate with the help of her children and her grandchildren, selling the fruits collected at a distribution company in Malang, in East Java. Mbok, his two children and three grandchildren all live in the same house in the small Indonesian village of Kampung Nuiastara, located near Blatar East Java.
She explores places on earth simulating the space
Michaela Musilová is a slovakic astrobiologist and analog astronaut – a scientist who simulates spatial problems on earth. She supervised more than 30 missions simulated on the Moon and in Mars as Director of Hi-Seas (the analog and the simulation of the Spatial Exploration of Hawai’i). Here she is seen to conduct her team in a mission in the darkness of a volcanic lava tube in Hawaii in search of information on how life can exist in such an inhospitable place – and how it could be linked to life in space. She is currently president of the non -profit association Xtreme -Frontiers, which she founded, where she continues to conduct research and led expeditions in cooperation with NASA, among other institutions in the world. Interested since childhood to become an astronaut, she is a defender of the teaching of science and is considered to be the “Bill Nye” of Slovakia.
A revolutionary guitarist
Born in Omdurman, Sudan in 1943, Zakia Abul Gassim Abu Bakr started his musical career in the 1960s, becoming one of the The first professional guitarists in the country. She explained in an interview once “it was the Sudanese dress that attracted them the most … I think the public was amazed and happy to see a woman in a group of Sudanese jazz.” She has turned around the world and now directs the entirely female group, Sawa Sawa.
Dive for a livelihood
Soon-Ja Hong, 69 is one of the female divers on the island of Jeju, South Korea. Women are known as Haenyeo – “Women of the Sea”. From the 17th century, women on the island resumed the support for support for deep diving at the bottom of the ocean. There, they bring together molluscs, conch, algae and other seafood, providing food and income to their families and their communities. The custom was for them to start training from an early age. In the industrialized agricultural world today, however, the number of Haenyeo has regularly dropped tens of thousands to a few thousand, and most of those who stay are in sixties or more. Women of the sea have been added to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.
Sweeping plastic problems
Lucia AbiganA street sweeper in Marikina City, Philippines, embodies the way ordinary women can make extraordinary efforts to protect the environment, explains photographer Danilo O. Victoriano. Beyond its daily tasks, Abigan volunteers at the recovery center for local materials, where it cleans and tries not only plastic waste, but also educates the next generation on sustainability and responsibility. It leads interactive workshops on the way in which plastic bottles thrown can be transformed into useful items such as planters, decor or even eco-brings for construction.
A defender inspired by his own divorce
For Polen Sari From Bali, in Indonesia, the price of obtaining a divorce from a tense marriage was to lose guard of her young daughter. She also learned, first of all from her own experience, then listening to the stories of others, that divorced women often suffered from ostracizing in Balinese society. After studying to become a teacher, she helped found a school for children with special needs. She then decided to create a safe refuge for vulnerable women, the PKP Community Center, which offers professional training and emotional support to women and families in need.
The traditional life of a nomadic
Manana leads a nomadic life in a mountainous region far from Georgia with her husband and two children. His days have spent taking care of livestock, moving between seasonal pastures, doing physical work and maintaining a traditional lifestyle now threatened to disappear in our modern society. She is a silent hero to support the cultural heritage of her family, explains the photographer.
A mechanic who flows the water
Rasheedat Umar, 19, is one of the few female mechanisms of the state of Sokoto in Nigeria. She followed her training in a program that collaborates with UNICEF and has taught more than 100 mechanisms to maintain water facilities, which often suffer from failures due to a lack of maintenance. The newly acquired expertise by Umar has been essential to maintain community water facilities, which provide clean and safe water to more than 20,000 local families. Umar does not only help to provide water “, she breaks barriers and inspires change to northern women in Nigeria,” said photographer Sope Adela.
Firefighters who break down barriers
The image is part of a series detailing the work of firefighters In Abuja, the capital of the most populous nation in Africa, Nigeria. They endure months of intensive training to qualify for their work – and broke the obstacles to sexes.
Diane Cole writes for many publications, including The Wall Street Journal And The Washington Post. She is the author of the Memoirs After a great pain: a new life emerges. His website is Dianejoycecole.com.
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