Dancing to her favourite Tamil song on New Year’s Eve, this girl was clicked by Indian documentary photojournalist Shuchi Kapoor for a photo series shot at a shelter-cum-home in Chennai for HIV-positive children who were abandoned by their parents. The huge spectacles were among the props used to protect identities. Shuchi writes: ‘I wanted to reject a narrative of weakness and show a happier side. These children were lucky to be adopted by one man, Solomon Raj. At first it was one such child, and then more and more. Raj left his full-time job to take care of his ever-growing family which now comprises of 43 children and a small number of carers, some of whom are HIV positive too and were raised there.’ Home life for them carries on as it should – just like anyone else’s.
See the series at nin.tl/ShuchiKapoor
