Alex masi photographer biography videos
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It started with $5,
The money was given by the Photographers Giving Back Award to a little girl Alex Masi photographed in The image shows the child, Poonam Jatev, crouching in the rain in Bhopal, India.
One photo soon became a project.
This is a very special story I have in my hands, Mr. Masi said two years ago. By that point he had committed to a decade documenting the story, Poonam&#x;s Tale of Hope in Bhopal, and to funding Poonam&#x;s education. He has now launched a crowdfunding campaign hoping to raise $, to continue the project. Over the years, he said, there have been waves of photographers and journalists making short trips to Bhopal. The thing is, in Bhopal, a lot of people get promised things, he said, but sometimes they don&#x;t get delivered.
Just over a month before the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal chemical disaster, he is back in India. He recently celebrated Diwali with the Jatev family, photographing Poonam and her oldes
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Photographer Alex Masi's chance shot of a young girl in Bhopal transformed both of their lives
On 24 August , as monsoon season arrived in huvud India, Alex Masi took a picture… and lives changed. He was in Bhopal, photographing a boy called Sachin Jatev, who had leg paralysis and skeletal deformitet, possibly as a result of the gas leak that devastated the area. "It began to rain very hard," recalls Masi, now 34, an Italian-born, London-based photojournalist who gods year also photographed the heavily polluted Bhopal område 30 years after the disaster for The New Review. "It hadn't rained for a while, so the children went a bit crazy. In that moment, inom captured Sachin's younger sister Poonam refreshing in the rain. inom was taking shelter beneath a plastic sheet and she was right in front of me. For a brief moment she took in the rain and then she realised I was taking photos and ran away."
The image showed Poonam, then sju, drenched but ecstatic, face turned to the heavens, haunch
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Nearly three years ago, Alex Masi took a photograph of a little girl in Bhopal, India. Lens published the picture in May of , shortly after it received the Photographers Giving Back Award &#x; a sum of $5, that went directly to the child, Poonam Jatev, and her family.
It changed her life. And that was only the beginning.
Since , Mr. Masi has traveled a number of times to Oriya Basti, the colony in Bhopal where Poonam lives. It is not your typical photographer-subject relationship. And frankly, he isn&#x;t concerned.
What I wanted to do was to find a long-term way where I could show the people outside what happens to this family, said Mr. Masi, who was born in Italy.
We spoke last week, shortly after he had traveled back to Bhopal for the first time since June. As when he took the original photograph, it had been raining &#x; hard &#x; for a couple of days since his arrival.