This year’s Inge Morath Award finalist is Spandita Malik (@spanditamalik), who is being recognized for her project “Nā́rī,” a series of collaborative portraits featuring embroidery by women unable to leave their homes in India due to their husbands or fathers, some of whom are domestic abuse survivors. Malik is a visual artist from India. Her work is concerned with the current global socio-political state of affairs with an emphasis on women’s rights and gendered violence. Malik’s work in expanded documentary and social-practice consciously emanates from the idea of decolonizing the eye and aesthetic surrounding documentary photography of India. On being named a finalist, Malik shared: “I am humbled to be the finalist of the prestigious Inge Morath Award. I am honored that ‘Nā́rī’ is named amongst distinguished works that have not only been transformative to my personal growth, but have also been an instrument of change in the world. I have been working on this project for the past three years and I am motivated to expand it to several communities of women in India, continuing to share stories in our inherited language of embroidery.” The Inge Morath Award is a grant made each year to a woman or nonbinary photographer under the age of 30 to support the completion of a long-term documentary project. The award is given by the Magnum Foundation, the Inge Morath Estate, and @magnumphotos in honor of the pioneering and prolific Inge Morath (1923–2002). Starting in 2020, each year’s finalist for the award has also received a grant in support of their project. Read more about Malik and this year’s awardee @johis.alarcon at the link in bio.