Bobbos of Ahun: A Photo Essay

‘Bobbos of Ahun’ is a photo essay about women from my paternal family residing in our native village called Ahun, documenting their negotiations within the patriarchal home through stories everyday struggles and resistance.‘Bobbo’ term endearment which loosely translates to ‘a little girl’ Haryanvi while Ahun speck universe, small hamlet state Haryana, India. The inhabited by families who are dependent on small-scale farming paddy wheat along with raising cattle. By photographing these familial space, I look at as gendered site where contestations, labour (visible invisible), self identity, longing, belonging estrangement, care neglect, happen every day. speak complex metaphor home, both an space portable feeling grandmother, cousins, sisters, aunts neighbours Ahun. photographs narrate remain displaced because gender roles fear community sanctions.