India Currents in Pictures: 2023
Ekta Doshi, Divya Empranthiri and Sanjana Karketta perform the piece Tu Jhoom for Ishami Dance Company’s launch and fundraiser at a private residence on Feb. 25 in Fremont, California. Co-founders Amit Patel and Ishika Seth used the event to explain the company’s mission to friends, family, and fans. The duo aims to break the culture of silence around social issues in the South Asian community and to create a forum where community members feel safe to voice ideas and opinions. They use the medium of South Asian contemporary dance to amplify marginalized voices.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
This project, a collaboration between India Currents and CatchLight as part of the CatchLight Local CA Visual Desk. Photographs and text by CatchLight Local Fellow Sree Sripathy. Contributors include Meera Kymal, Jenny Jacklin-Stratton and Mabel Jiménez.
CatchLight Local is a visual journalism initiative made possible thanks to the generous support of individuals, foundations, and corporations including the Emerson Collective and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Enlight Foundation, The John S and James L Knight Foundation, Kresge Foundation, and our education partner PhotoWings.
ABOUT SREE
Sree Sripathy is a writer, photographer, artist and disability advocate based in the SF Bay Area. Her work focuses on the seen and unseen and their relationship to isolation, ability/disability, immigrant identity, language and culture. Sree is the Co-Founder of the Women's Parkinson's Project, an Ambassador and YOPD Council Member for the Davis Phinney Foundation and a Board Member for Poetry Center San José.
