Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel - Home

Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel - Home
  • Title: Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel - Home
  • Dimensions: 16x20
  • Materials: Digital Print
  • Primary Medium: Photography
  • Year Created: 2011
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I photographed this family in Durban, South Africa in February 2011. They live next door to a crack house and their lives are inextricably linked to the drugs and deals taking place next door. In the 19th century, the British brought approximately 150,000 Indians to South Africa to work as indentured laborers on the sugarcane fields of KwaZulu-Natal. As a result, Durban now has the largest Indian population in sub-Saharan Africa. This image is part of my ongoing series, "Home Away from Home", a photographic project on the global South Asian Diaspora including populations that emigrated during the 19th century as indentured servants as well as more recent emigrants who left the region for educational or economic opportunity. Through this project she hopes to explore the universal issues facing diaspora populations as they migrate from one culture and adapt to another – examining what they take with them and what they leave behind.

Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel

Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel

Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel is a photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her personal work shares untold stories of identity, home and Diaspora through powerful, intimate imagery and narratives. She is currently shooting a photographic project on the global South Asian Diaspora exploring the universal issues facing diaspora populations as they migrate from one culture and adapt to another – examining what they take with them and what they leave behind. Additionally, she is working on her first short film, Claiming Our Voice, documenting a community theater project by an organization founded by and for low-wage South Asian women domestic workers in Queens, NY. Samuel began her career in documentary film working on the PBS FRONTLINE films The Storm (2005), The Old Man and The Storm (2009) and HEAT (2008). She has also worked on several independent documentary films and has produced and directed short films about climate change for UNICEF. Samuel received her B.A. in Anthropology from New York University in 1998. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Dominica for two years before obtaining her Masters from the School of International and Public Affairs from Columbia University in 2005.

Website: www.jpsphoto.com

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  • Ray A. Llanos
    Monday, 19 December 2011 03:39 | posted by Ray A. Llanos

    Congratulations Jennifer! Beautiful piece despite the reality of their everyday lives. Wishing you much success with your "Home Away from Home" series.

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