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Portraits of women who 'shine a light': from an 'analog' astronaut to a watermelon farmer
A 19-year-old mechanic in Nigeria who maintains the water supply, a ground-breaking jazz guitarist from Sudan, deep-sea diving women in their 60s from South Korea, a watermelon vendor in Indonesia who at 82 is her family's main bread winner.
They are among the subjects in the photography exhibition, "Iconic Women: From Everyday Life to Global Heroes," that opens on March 8, in honor of International Women's Day, at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, and will run through January 19. The photos represent the winners of the Center's eleventh annual "Shining a Light" document photo contest, chosen from 472 submissions from photographers from 65 countries.
The goal each year is to "shine a light on the issue of gender equality," said Amelia McGrath, the Center's archivist and manager of collections. It also honors the fact that Muhammad Ali — the professional boxer, social activist and philanthropist for whom the center is named — was named a United Nations Global Messenger of Peace in 1986.
Past exhibits have focused on such subjects as voting rights and women in various careers. This year's exhibit highlights "iconic women," with photos demonstrating how women of different ages around the world have inspired, contributed to, empowered and built up their communities, their families and the lives of others.
Sponsor MessageHere is a selection of portraits featured in the exhibition with descriptions of their subjects drawn from information provided by the photographers.
A watermelon farmer who lifts up her family
Now 82, Mbok Sutinah— Mbok is the Javanese nickname for an older woman — has been selling watermelon to support her family since her husband's death in 1987. The watermelon comes from her late husband's watermelon farm, which Mbok has continued to cultivate with the help of her children and grandchildren, selling the harvested fruit to a distribution company in Malang, East Java. Mbok, her two children and three grandchildren all live in the same house in the small Indonesian village of Kampung Nuasantra, located near Blitar East Java.
She explores places on earth that simulate outer space
Michaela Musilováis a Slovak astrobiologist and analog astronaut — a scientist who simulates space issues on earth. She has overseen more than 30 simulated missions to the moon and to Mars as the director of HI-SEAS (the Hawai'i Space Exploration Analog and Simulation). She is seen here leading her team on a mission into the darkness of a volcanic lava tube in Hawaii in search of information about how life can exist in such an inhospitable place — and how that might relate to living in space. She is currently president of the nonprofit XtremeFrontiers, which she founded, where she continues to conduct research and lead expeditions in cooperation with NASA, among other institutions worldwide. Interested since childhood in becoming an astronaut, she is an advocate for science education and is seen as the "Bill Nye" of Slovakia.
A ground-breaking guitarist
Born in Omdurman, Sudan in 1943, Zakia Abul Gassim Abu Bakrbegan her musical career in the 1960s, becoming one ofthe country's first professional female guitarists. She explained in an interview once that "it was the Sudanese dress that attracted them the most… I feel that the audiences were amazed and happy to see a woman in a Sudanese jazz band." She has toured all over the world and now leads the all-female band, Sawa Sawa.
Diving for a livelihood
Soon-ja Hong, 69, is one of the female divers of Jeju Island, South Korea. The women are known as the Haenyeo — "women of the sea." Starting in the 17th century, the island's women took over the breadwinning task of deep-diving to the ocean floor. There they gather mollusks, conch, seaweed and other seafood, providing food and income for their families and their communities. The custom was for them to start training from an early age. In today's industrialized agricultural world, though, the number of Haenyeo has steadily declined from tens of thousands to just a few thousand, and most of those who remain are in their 60s or older. The women of the sea has been added to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
An advocate inspired by her own divorce
For Sari Pollenof Bali, Indonesia, the price of gaining a divorce from a strained marriage was losing custody of her young daughter. She also learned, first from her own experience and then from listening to the stories of others, that divorced women often suffered from being ostracized in Balinese society. After studying to become a teacher, she helped found a school for children with special needs. She then decided to create a safe haven for vulnerable women, the PKP Community Center, which provides job training and emotional support for women and families in need.
A nomad's traditional life
Mananaleads a nomadic life in a remote mountainous region of Georgia with her husband and two children. Her days are spent tending to livestock, moving between seasonal pastures, performing physical labor and maintaining a traditional way of life now under threat of disappearing in our modern society. She is a quiet hero in sustaining her family's cultural heritage, says the photographer.
A mechanic who keeps water flowing
Rasheedat Umar,19, is one of the few female mechanics in Nigeria's Sokoto State. She got her training in a program that collaborates with UNICEF and has taught over 100 mechanics to sustain water facilities, which often suffer failures due to a lack of maintenance. Umar's newly gained expertise has been critical to keep maintain the community's water facilities, which provide clean and safe water to over 20,000 local families. Umar is not just helping to provide water, "she is breaking barriers and inspiring change for women in Northern Nigeria," says photographer Sope Adelaja.
Firefighters who break down barriers
The image is part of a series detailing the work of female firefightersin Abuja, the capital of Africa's most populous nation, Nigeria. They endure months of intensive training to qualify for their jobs — and have broken gender barriers.
Sponsor MessageDiane Cole writes for many publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. She is the author of the memoir After Great Pain: A New Life Emerges. Her website is DianeJoyceCole.com.