{"id":200939,"date":"2013-11-01T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=200939"},"modified":"2013-11-01T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T13:59:50","slug":"survival-to-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/survival-to-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Survival to Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Code of the street<\/strong> Roy\u2019s monograph is a frank acknowledgement of his roots<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nVicky Roy would rather we not talk about his uplifting life story. \u201cI\u2019ve stopped talking about my personal life,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019d rather talk about my work.\u201d There\u2019s as much fatigue as there is modesty in that decision; it\u2019s a story he\u2019s told at various events. It\u2019s also the basis of his first monograph, Home. Street. Home.<\/em>, the first of a series of books being brought out by the Nazar Foundation to bring greater attention to young photographers.
\nIn 1999, Roy, then 11, ran away from home in Purulia, West Bengal, and took the first available train to Delhi. He had been taken in by his grandfather, as his parents couldn\u2019t afford to raise him, and was tired of the endless chores he was being made to do. More importantly, he wanted to see the world. Once in Delhi, he lived on the platform, collecting empty water bottles, filling them with cold water and selling them to general class passengers. Eventually, he was taken in by the Salaam Baalak Trust, who gave him an education. They also exposed him to photography, first by letting him tag along with British photographer Dixie Benjamin as he documented the trust\u2019s activities, then by getting him an apprenticeship with Anay Mann.
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Home. Street. Home.<\/strong>
Vicky Roy<\/em>
Nazar Foundation
97 pp; Rs 1,000<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nHome. Street. Home.<\/em> is a frank acknowledgement of his roots, a thank you note to the people and institutions who contributed to making him an international success (he was one of the four photographers chosen after an international competition to document the reconstruction of the World Trade Centre). The photos are largely drawn from two collections, Street Dreams<\/em> and Apna Ghar,<\/em> where he followed children living on Delhi\u2019s streets and in the home he grew up in. With sensitivity and empathy, he charts the course these children are taking, a course he himself took, one from survival to choice. He captures the hope these children feel \u201conce they are taken in by society, given a support structure to chase their dreams\u201d.
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Vicky Roy\u2019s first monograph captures both the struggles of life on the street as well as the hope for something better, says Ajachi Chakrabarti<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":200951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[8040,8487,7056,8488,8489,8490,8491,7492,8492,8493,7622],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}