Changing the Conversation

• Photographer
  Sujata Setia, United Kingdom

My 8-year-old daughter returned from school one day and asked me if she is "beautiful." As a girl child who grew up in a patriarchal society back in a small town of India, I have battled for all of my life with the constructs of beautiful or ugly; boy or girl; normal or abnormal, rich or poor, pink or blue... this world for me has always been divided in binaries, until my daughter started to grow up with a similar world view. And so, I started this series as an effort to work towards the expansion of humanity. A world without exceptions. A world that moves away from binaries. It is ongoing.