The Women Changing India

Across India women are responding to change – whether in the form of technology, or new jobs, or accessing public spaces – with enthusiasm and excitement. 

Women Changing India, currently on view as an exhibition touring five major Indian cities (until December 2010), is a seminal body of work commissioned by BNP Paribas to mark 150 years of the bank's presence in the country. 

In collaboration with Delhi-based female publishing house Zubaan, six Magnum photographers: Olivia Arthur, Martine Franck, Raghu Rai, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Webb and Patrick Zachmann, photographed six different subjects chosen to reflect the cultural and geographical diversity of life for contemporary Indian women, from young students looking to the future and women working at village level for the betterment of their communities, to those at the top of their professions, blazing a trail in a still predominantly male world.