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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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FESTIVAL FRIENDS
A counselor for Prakriti Sahodaran, a men’s sexual health project, strikes a pose with a hijra friend at the annual Aravan festival in South India. The festival celebrate a passage from the Hindu epic Mahabharata in which Lord Krishna transforms himself into a woman for a single night to marry the warrior Aravan before his sacrifice in battle. Each year, thousands of the ‘third gender’ from all over South Asia come to the festival from singing, dancing and ritual mourning for the warrior husband.
Villpurum, Tamil Nadu, India.
SAMSON
Sahodaran worker named Samson, a counselor for Prakriti Sahodaran, a men’s
sexual health project poses as he gets ready to go out for work at the annual Aravan
festival which attracts trans-sexuals from all over the country.
Villupurum, Chennai, South India.
TRANSVESTITES 
Sahodaran worker of Prakriti Sahodaran, gets ready to go out for work at the annual Aravan festival which attracts trans-sexuals from all over the country.
Chennai, Madras, South India.
EUNUCHS MAKING UP
Eunuchs dressing in festival attire. Each year, thousands of Eunuch descends on the village temple of Koothandabar for the festival of Aravan. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata in which Lord Krishna transforms himself into a woman for a single night to marry the warrior Aravan before his sacrifice in battle. Each year, thousands of the ‘third gender’ from all over South Asia come to the festival from singing, dancing and ritual mourning for the warrior husband.
Villpurum, Tamil Nadu, India.
EUNUCHS MAKING UP (A)
Eunuchs dressing in festival attire. Each year, thousands of Eunuch descends on the
village temple of Koothandabar for the festival of Aravan. In the Hindu epic
Mahabharata in which Lord Krishna transforms himself into a woman for a single
night to marry the warrior Aravan before his sacrifice in battle. Each year, thousands
of the ‘third gender’ from all over South Asia come to the festival from singing,
dancing and ritual mourning for the warrior husband.
Villpurum, Tamil Nadu, India.
THE HUNTER
Sri Lanka is the only country is South Asia afflicted with a significant number of Westerner sex tourists, a European man, known to the police a s pedophile organized, waits in a schoolyard to meet a child prostitute. The meeting was arranged by the boy’s pimp.
Negombo, Sri Lanka
TOURIST TRADE
Unlike girls, boys in the trade generally lose their sexual values soon after pubescence, although boys, unlike girls, can marry and ‘reintegrate’ into society without great difficulty, many continue in the trades as pimps, often to support a drug habit. A pimp scoots a Western customer for a boy prostitutes on the beaches of a resort town
Negombo, Sri Lanka.
PRIVATE STAR
Pedophile hang out.
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
COVERT
Hotel workers taking break on the beach. In Sri Lanka female sex work is covert, and many women such as these use straight jobs as a covert for soliciting clients.
Colombo, Sri Lanka.
FESTIVAL FRIENDS
A counselor for Prakriti Sahodaran, a men’s sexual health project, strikes a pose with a hijra friend at the annual Aravan festival in South India. The festival celebrate a passage from the Hindu epic Mahabharata in which Lord Krishna transforms himself into a woman for a single night to marry the warrior Aravan before his sacrifice in battle. Each year, thousands of the ‘third gender’ from all over South Asia come to the festival from singing, dancing and ritual mourning for the warrior husband.
Villpurum, Tamil Nadu, India.
FESTIVAL FRIENDS
A counselor for Prakriti Sahodaran, a men’s sexual health project, strikes a pose with a hijra friend at the annual Aravan festival in South India. The festival celebrate a passage from the Hindu epic Mahabharata in which Lord Krishna transforms himself into a woman for a single night to marry the warrior Aravan before his sacrifice in battle. Each year, thousands of the ‘third gender’ from all over South Asia come to the festival from singing, dancing and ritual mourning for the warrior husband.
Villpurum, Tamil Nadu, India.
FESTIVAL FRIENDS
A counselor for Prakriti Sahodaran, a men’s sexual health project, strikes a pose with a hijra friend at the annual Aravan festival in South India. The festival celebrate a passage from the Hindu epic Mahabharata in which Lord Krishna transforms himself into a woman for a single night to marry the warrior Aravan before his sacrifice in battle. Each year, thousands of the ‘third gender’ from all over South Asia come to the festival from singing, dancing and ritual mourning for the warrior husband.
Villpurum, Tamil Nadu, India.
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