Speakers » Samar S Jodha
Photography artist, humanist and social thinker, Samar Jodha spent four years amongst the Tai Phake community in the remote area of Phaneng in Northern Assam. The result of this was twelve great portraits of people, which are currently shown at the Arts i, Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi.
About The Talk
Building for marginalised communities !
I first came across members of the Tai Phake tribe in the winter of 2004, while driving along the historic Stilwell road from Southwest China into India’s cloistered northeast for a documentary project. Since then, I have spent a large part of the past five years living amongst and working with members of this Buddhist tribe in Phaneng, a small village in upper Assam in North East India. Due to various reasons, this tribe numbers a mere 1500 today and is on the verge of extinction.
