HAMIDA KHATRI
creative therapy platform
Project Happiness
Zero Gavity, Nagpur, India
It was an honor to be part of the community-based Project Happiness by Zero Gravity – a non-profit youth voluntary network in association with Dr. Shrikant Jichkar Foundation that works towards education, sustainable employment and environmental awareness programs in Nagpur, India. I express my sincere gratitude to Maitri Jichkar and Zero Gravity Team to allow me to participate in this event.
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Project Happiness
My participation became a great asset for me as I captured the true meaning of happiness to those who have no great luxuries in life. From adults to young people, who had physical, visionary, hearing and sensory impairment, were part of the project. It was a fun-based and vibrant platform, with them theme of space, in experiencing life on a whole new level.
The layers of emotions that I captured through my lens have truly been magnificent. To me they are the purest form of human connectivity where each and every soul becomes one, surrounded by transcendent energies. These were the lights and colors that I kept near to my soul. There was no true form of expression other than anchoring the unspoken glare in the eyes of the young that was missed by the naked eye within milliseconds. These subtle sparkles played euphoric melodies, played silently in my ears, hence taking me on a spiritual journey, an expedition where I met the true self of a complete stranger. But by walking those lines, I came to understand that such encounters eventually divert from being a foreign entity into becoming one individual. I, however, explored such journeys and seize those moments of unforgettable associations through my camera.