Portraits of widows of migrant workers who died building the infrastructure in Qatar for the FIFA World Cup. Accompanied by 59 second mini documentaries where they tell their story.
The Objective of this story is to take a dignified look at the women who were robbed of their partner and breadwinner. To add insult to injury most of them didn’t even get part of the compensation they are due from Qatar, the employers, or the insurance companies if any at all. They sometimes have to wait weeks for the husband’s body to be repatriated.
6,500 Migrant workers are dead. Such an absurdly high number. I wanted to put a face to the statistic, and let the viewer look in the eyes of the Wives that are left to provide for their family.
Visually I wanted to step away from the idea of misery porn, and make the pictures with all the vibrance and beauty that is in India to juxtapose it with the horrible situation these women are in. Some of them are enraged, some are broken. The one thing they all have in common is that they will be suffering whilre the rest of the world looks to Qatar for entertainment.
