The sex workers of Kotha No. 300 raise their children, cookfortheir lovers, visit temples, shrines and mosques, complainaboutpimps and brothel owners, listen to film songs, and solicitandentertain customers. By following the daily lives of the denizens of one kotha, Mayank Austen Soofi paints an intimateportrait of women for whom sex is work-a way to make a living.
With precise details and haunting photographs, Soofidelicately and carefully etches the everyday world of those whoinhabit the peripheries of society. |
