Mumbai Male Masseurs photography Exhibition at the Brunei Gallery

Photography
London, United Kingdom
FUNDED

Mumbai Male Masseurs is a photographic exhibition set to open at the Brunei Gallery, Russell Square on the 13th of July until the 22nd of September 2012.

The work explores the lives of this closed, secretive, invisible community providing both primarily massage and through that sexual services to male clients on the streets and hotels of Mumbai.

The masseurs live in various slums across Mumbai, in small but closely knit communities. Accommodation is shared with 10 to 12 masseurs living in single room dwellings. They sleep together and eat together in these small cramped rooms during the day and going out to work the streets of Mumbai at night

The Masseurs are predominantly heterosexual and many of them are married with children and view their job as an economic necessity. The pressure to send money home is a constant concern. The masseurs “Mumbai lives” are generally a secret from their families. However, it is not unknown for several generations of the same family to be working in Mumbai as masseurs. Older family members coerce younger family members to enter the trade to fulfill the demand for good looking young men.

I have been working closley for the last 2 years  with the Mumbai NGO, The Samabhavana Society, the only organisation that runs various projects for this community of masseurs.

The project is now in its final stage. I have completed the body of work and have been awarded the exhibtion space. I now need to raise £3000 to print and frame the images and stage the exhibition .

I hope that any additional funds raised can go back to the NGO to help fund a member of the team I have worked so closely with for the last two years to come to London and take part in an educational event just after the exhibition opens.

Thank you for taking the time to read my proposal and I hope I have motivsted you in someway to donate to this worth while project.

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Level 1

£10.00 or more : To acknowledge your generous support your name will be listed on a thank you panel at the exhibition. The panel will be in place for the whole period of the exhibition. You will receive a photograph via e-mail of the thank you panel along with a personalised thank you e-mail.

 

Level 2

£25.00 or more : You will receive LEVEL 1 as well as a signed postcard featuring one of the photographs from the exhibition.

 

Level 3

£50.00 or more : You will receive LEVEL 1 as well as a 12X8 limited edition signed and numbered crowd funding print of one of the photographs from the exhibition

 

Level 4

£75.00 or more : You will recieve both LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 3 as well as an invitation to the opening night of the exhibition on the 12th of July 2012

 

Level 5

£150.00 or more : This huge package of rewards includes LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 3 and a unique opportunity to have a private 1 hour tour of the exhibition (for a group not exceeding 4 people) with the photographer at a mutually convenient date for both parties during the exhibition period from the 13th July until the 22nd September 2012. Charles Fox will give you a behind the scenes insight into the project. You will also see a selection of images which did not make it into the exhibition and Charles will explain the thought process behind this.

 

Level 6

£250.00 or more : The most comprehensive package available gives you LEVEL 1 Two invitations to the opening night of the exhibition on the 12th of July 2012 A unique opportunity to have a private 1 hour tour of the exhibition (for a group not exceeding 4 people) with the photographer at a mutually convenient date for both parties during the exhibition period from the 13th July until the 22nd September 2012. Charles Fox will give you a behind the scenes insight into the project. You will also see a selection of images which did not make it into the exhibition and Charles will explain the thought process behind this. And as well as all of the above you will receive a 24x16 limited edition signed and numbered crowd funding print of one of the photographs of your choice from the exhibition which will be given to you personally by Charles Fox when you attend your private exhibition walk through.