I WAS MY HUSBAND

• Prize
  Bronze in Press/People/Personality
• Photographer
  Valter Darbe, Italy
• Date of Photograph
  2015-2019
• Socials
• Website
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/darbe_valter/

The modern Indian society seems to be not able to modify some aspects belonging to the most orthodox Hindu culture, according to which, a widow no longer have any right nor social utility, and loose her identity when the husband die. They are 42 million in India: kicked out of houses, stolen from properties or money, they are banned from all social moments of life. A phenomenon that crosses all social classes, doubly enclosed within the walls of the ashrams that ward them and the cultural prisons of a society that prefers to make them "invisible" rather than questioning themselves.

• Biography
  Born in 1962, bachelor degree in photography and master in “Science, technology and communication”. Artistic activities in 1991 with a research focused on archetypes of emotions, which was noteworthy at national and international level with solo and group exhibitions. Since 2005 he started some photographic projects with some NGOs, currently I’m board member of Six Degrees, an international association of war and social reporters. My work is focussed on the status of women in different cultural heritage, and on the social impacts of the "Silk Roads".
• Awards
  Solo exhibition 1989 La città e i segni Portes Gallery 1991 Camera Work Gallery (UK) 1998 “Hic et Nunc” - Doctor Sax Gallery 2005 "Un grande gioco" (IT) – Ambharabar 2006 "L'antropologia della libertà" – Ambharabar (IT) 2008 “Stimmung” (IT) 2019 “Una fragile striscia di pace: Afghanistan nord orientale e silk road” - Museum of Archeology of Aosta (2019). 2019 Ongoing “I was my husband” in Turin, Milan and Florence Collective exhibition 1989 Turin Photography Biennial (IT); 1994 Galerie Labyrinthe in Lausanne (CH); 1994 Collegno Arts Hall & Zenit Gallery IT). 1995 International Festival of the Photographie "Images '95" in Vevey (CH) with the retrospective dedicated to Jeanloup Sieff - "Les portrait de l'incoscience". Books "For a new interpretation of dreams" published by Moretti & Vitali 2007 Awards 2018 Top 25 Storytelling at MIPA 2018 2018 Selected by National Geographic Award Italia 2019 Finalist at SIPA