Riposte editor Danielle Pender, the print sale’s inaugural statement declares, “Like you, we are completely heartbroken and devastated seeing how the pandemic is ravaging India.” Pledging their support to Mission Oxygen, Art for India will aid the urgent operation to import oxygen concentrators and distribute them to hospitals across the country.
Prints cost £100 each plus shipping and 100 per cent of profits benefit this vital cause. But the sale ends Sunday May 9, so don’t waste time if you’d like to help out India in its time of dire need whilst also carrying off a beautiful print by a renowned artist.
Art for IndiaPhotography by Prarthna Singh
As India’s Covid cases continue to soar, Art for India is raising money for Mission Oxygen through the sale of photographic prints by some of the country’s leading image-makers
May 04, 2021
It’s been over a year since the Covid-19 pandemic gripped the world, and as many countries seem to be edging towards some semblance of normality, others are facing the most devastating surges of the virus yet. India – the world’s second most populous nation – is one of the countries currently struggling the most, with the rampant spread of a deadly new variant of the virus bringing its healthcare system to its knees, and a terrifying milestone of 20 million Covid cases surpassed this week.
The Sisterhood exhibition aims to disrupt oppressive and Islamophobic mischaracterisations of women in the community A powerful artistic disruption : Speakers Corner Collective members (Photograph by Sofia Bouzidi)
Young women in Bradford are taking back control of their own narratives. In celebration of International Women’s Day, they have organised a public photography exhibition across city billboards, reclaiming public space by portraying their empowering sisterhood.
Amid heightened isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, the group from Speakers Corner Collective, a creative and political space that mobilises girls and young women in Bradford, came together last summer for a photoshoot.
Sisterhood is a series of images created in collaboration with art director Neesha Champaneria and photographer Vivek Vadoliya, who said they wanted to “go beyond the cliches of what you might expect it means to be a South Asian female in Bradford, thinking about Bradford’s rich migra
A BRADFORD collective will share a series of photographs on billboards and public spaces across the city to celebrate International Women s Day. Speakers Corner - a political, creative and social collective led by young women from Bradford - will showcase Sisterhood, a photographic collection which aims to take control of the way women are portrayed and perceived. It comes as part of Bradford Council s International Women s Day celebrations, with the day itself commemorated on 8 March, and also as part of the Art in the Park series. Speakers Corner came together in August to capture what sisterhood means to women and girls, as well as to feel empowered, dress up and celebrate being ourselves , providing some positivity amid the monotony of lockdown.