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Thomas Kelly  > EXHIBITION > Fallen Angels: Sex Workers of South Asia
Fallen Angels: Sex Workers of South Asia



On 100% archival Mueso silver rag paper. Printed at Santa Fe Editions, Santa Fe, New Mexico/ Gary Mankus.
14X20 inch image size on 17X22 inch paper size
20X30 inch image size on 24X 36 inch paper size

Or, on Kodak professional matt paper with 100 year archival quality made on Noritsu LPS 24 pro Japanese Kodak printer in Kathmandu, Nepal
16X20 inch paper size
20X30 inch paper size

(Shipping of the prints are done in a PVC tube)

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31GODDESS YELLAMA
Each year in January, thousands of low caste farmers pilgrimage to the temple of
Goddess Yellama, patron deity of the downtrodden, hijras, and prostitutes. Saturated
in turmeric dust, crowds of villagers circumambulate the temple shouting "Udheyo!
Udheyo! Rise Up to the Mother!"
Saundatti, Karnataka, India.
YELLAMA DEVADASI
Weaving in trance, drenched in sacred healing turmeric, devadasis ‘handmaidens of the Goddess’ sway through the crowds, with images of goddess Yellama balanced on their heads, a renewal of the life force at her yearly festival. Auspicious but impure, according to Medieval temple records, devadasis brought critical income to the temples. Clients made offerings for physical union with the Goddess in the form of devadasis. Today, Yellama’s devotees are mostly bonded laborers who till the soil for landlords, and many devadasis find themselves in Mumbai red light districts. HIV and STD run rampant in these communities.
Saundatti, Karnataka, India.
YELLAMA DEVADASI
Weaving in trance, drenched in sacred healing turmeric, devadasis ‘handmaidens of the Goddess’ sway through the crowds, with images of goddess Yellama balanced on their heads, a renewal of the life force at her yearly festival.  Auspicious but impure, according to Medieval temple records, devadasis brought critical income to the temples. Clients made offerings for physical union with the Goddess in the form of devadasis. Today, Yellama’s devotees are mostly bonded laborers who till the soil for landlords, and many devadasis find themselves in Mumbai red light districts. HIV and STD run rampant in these communities.
Saundatti, Karnataka, India.
YELLAMA DEVADASI
A devadasi in trance dances at the yearly festival to Yellama. She wears the distinctive dreadlocks and cowry shell necklace markings of a devadasi.  In Ancient India, devadasis were the only women who could read, write and own property. A devadasi does not require a dowry. Since marriage to Yellama ritually turns a daughter into a groom and a son, poor parents without sons dedicate their daughter in the hopes that she will provide for them in their old age. 
Saundatti, Karnataka, India.
IN THE NAME OF GOD
A child is brought by her mother to the Yellama festival to be dedicated. Girls who enter service to the goddess are usually from landless, low-caste families who work as bonded laborers for powerful landlords. Upon reaching menarche, many girls will sell sex in rural towns to support their families; others will move to the red-light districts of the big cities. Over 50% of the working prostitutes in Mumbai are Devadasi.
Karnataka, Saundatti, India.
child is brought by her mother to the Yellama festival to be dedicated. Girls who
enter service to the goddess are usually from landless, low-caste families who work
as bonded laborers for powerful landlords. Upon reaching menarche, many girls will
sell sex in rural towns to support their families; others will move to the red-light
districts of the big cities. Over 50% of the working prostitutes in Mumbai are
Devadasi.
Karnataka, Saundatti, India.
RESISTING RELIGIOUS EXPLOITATION
Former devadasis are now organized and rebelling against devadasi system. A volunteer from the activists organization Myrada cuts the ritual dreadlocks of a devadasi child. When the dreadlocks are cut, it is believed that the power of goddess is broken
Saundatti, Kanataka, India
DEVADASI SEPERATION
This young devadasi was taken away from her mother and put in school. 
Kanataka, India.
SLAVE
In Bangladesh, a large proportion of child prostitutes are either trafficked into the brothels of enters as tsukri—bonded domestic laborers who are forced into prostitution when they reach pubescence. A child makes up her face as her madam and as elderly client watch.
Tanbazar Brothel, Narayanganj, Bangladesh
31GODDESS YELLAMA
Each year in January, thousands of low caste farmers pilgrimage to the temple of
Goddess Yellama, patron deity of the downtrodden, hijras, and prostitutes. Saturated
in turmeric dust, crowds of villagers circumambulate the temple shouting "Udheyo!
Udheyo! Rise Up to the Mother!"
Saundatti, Karnataka, India.
31GODDESS YELLAMA
Each year in January, thousands of low caste farmers pilgrimage to the temple of
Goddess Yellama, patron deity of the downtrodden, hijras, and prostitutes. Saturated
in turmeric dust, crowds of villagers circumambulate the temple shouting "Udheyo!
Udheyo! Rise Up to the Mother!"
Saundatti, Karnataka, India.
31GODDESS YELLAMA
Each year in January, thousands of low caste farmers pilgrimage to the temple of
Goddess Yellama, patron deity of the downtrodden, hijras, and prostitutes. Saturated
in turmeric dust, crowds of villagers circumambulate the temple shouting "Udheyo!
Udheyo! Rise Up to the Mother!"
Saundatti, Karnataka, India.
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