vorlac the ones left in this film are as follows;"the son of a sex worker is avijit, a little fat living in India, he's an emotional and fragile boy, he's got a poison-like mind, allah's ability to pay taxes, he can take very good pictures, he just prints the shutter, and the rest is spontaneous. It's a photo machine gun, and as we touch the trigger, there's an idea about how people live, about the most sad ...the children of Calcutta, the puppets of life ... in the presence of pity they can create a feast for you or thank you. the capital of western Bengal in India. I think that the most important port of India is here because she is a life-lady too. I do not know what you understand from the word of the poor. I would argue that these people are really poor.Brisbane's ... someone who has done something sacred. even a single child has a tiny positive influence on your life, the world always changes. briski has done it. so my idol gap can fill up. He goes to Calcutta to live in the brothels and go to take pictures first. After the kids start giving them photo shoots. These guys are the children of sex workers. each one has a separate story, which is certainly tragic. avijit's mother, for example; Killed in the kitchen by the vendor. I think she's blowing up. These children who live in the brothel know very well what they expect in the future. girls are candidates to be prostitutes, men are ...One of the black-eyed girls says, "We tell everything so easily, we get it right now" about briski. the photo course is turning into a battle for life saving soon. she starts to look for a boarding school that will accept children. some of them have left a miracle bomb with a tiny touch on their life. remember the days you changed the way your toy train was going on its way around the track, so that's what briski is doing. Children change course.Avijit that your mother consoled me one day to send you to London to read; "Stop reading, we do not even have enough money to live," he says. and then finds himself in a photo exhibition in Amsterdam. Watch this movie to see the little miracles in the story. and then you wish to cause a little miracle. "

SnoopyStyle Photographer Zana Briski wants to take pictures of the red light district in Calcutta. She finds resistance from the locals but she befriends several of the kids. She gives them cameras and let them take the pictures. The kids struggle with their family's troubles. The girls face pressure to join "in the line". Avijit is a cocky boy with anger issues. The kids call her Zana Auntie. She struggles through the bureaucratic labyrinth to get the kids their birth certificates, rations, and ultimately an education. Meanwhile, the pictures are sold in western charities to raise funds for the kids.Ultimately, the question is raised if the kids are being helped. I hope the answer is positive. At least, some of them end up going to school. As a documentary, the kids' family drama could be highlighted more. This ends up concentrating more on the pictures. It would be helpful to do a good length of exposition on each child and their family background. Each kid and family should have at least five minutes. Zana seems to be more driven to take the kids on field trips and photographic sessions while pushing the ultimate goal of school. The family drama is normally the main course for a documentary but she's not that kind of a filmmaker. That's not to say the photographs aren't important. It's a good device to get at the issues but it shouldn't be the issue itself.

Prismark10 Directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman this is not an observational documentary with the filmmakers as detached bystanders.In 1997 photographer Zana Briski went to the red light district Calcutta to document the lives of the sex workers. She lived among them, to gain their confidence and realised that the children of the sex workers were at risk of following them into a life of prostitution and drugs.Briski provided the children with cameras, set up classes in photography and got them to take pictures of their lives in their harsh environment as well as trying to take them out it. It would not be long before the children would be forced into prostitution so Briski wanted them to get education but it was not easy.There are some wonderful shots in this film , not surprisingly given Briski's background in photography. However the documentary came across as disjointed and even mawkish. I also found the music to be poor. We see very little about the women that Briski planned to document apart from one scene where there was a little cursing but no idea why or what they were arguing about. The filmmakers became more concerned about the well being of the kids.At the end she did find schools for the kids but not all stayed there. Some years on, several of the kids now grown up ended up studying in America.

crooked_spoons Never has there been a more gross misuse of wording than in the title of this film. This is little more than a showcase of Briski's "forward thinking" self righteous presence and overrated photography. This woman taught a group of children, living in squalor and facing starvation how to use a camera. Yes, a C A M E R A! As if the ability to shoot nice little pictures was going to help them rise above their situation and do better for themselves. Tell me Zana, if one of said children decided to take up such a lovely hobby...how would they get their pictures developed? How would they afford the film? The brothel/prostitution aspect is brought up very little. The very word "Brothel" was probably mentioned all of three times. The film doesn't delve into how the mothers ended up there, assault/battery, child prostitution or anything of substance.This is about the nice white lady who rolled out of bed one day and decided to showcase her benevolent spirit. But what she gave them was nothing. A useless hobby that was forgotten by the time she boarded her plane back to New York. While she's sipping cocktails somewhere in Midtown Manhattan congratulating herself on her selfless deeds and how she's helped those poor little brown children, a 10yr old girl is probably having her virginity auctioned off to the highest bidder...a 50 yr old man.