Mithila Jariwala is a freelance photographer who works serving Development Agencies, NGO’s, Publishing Companies and also conducts
photography workshops.
Started her career as a travel and documentary photographer; she now works as a social documentary/humanitarian photographer/communication consultant – independently taking up national and international assignments. She also works on various commissioned travel, editorial and other commercial assignments.photography workshops.
Since last April, she was in Nepal for deployment, working on ground zero with local organisations and covering positive stories of the earthquake and its aftermath. She also worked with IFRC at the time and started blogging for the Huffington Post. She is also occupied with an on-going project that focuses on the lives of Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal, living in the UNHCR camps for over two decades. In the past, she has worked on projects with UNICEF, UNDP, USAID, Chemonics, Kidasha and other such organisations.
She also has experience working in disaster situations on areas such as Nutrition, Education, Health, Hygiene, Child Rights, Street kids, Human Rights, Agriculture, Finance, Economic & Trade activity among others.
Her works have been exhibited in India, Singapore, Nepal and London and have been published in several magazines around South East Asia, India, Nepal and the United States. Her work has also been published in the Sony World Photography Winners book, 2012.
Trotting flying sailing across the globe
I see myself up high
Exploring observing snapping the globe
To travel is my passion, adventure an experiment,
The camera my companion and the pen seem familiar now.
The large map of the World,
Hangs to the right of my bed.
I stare imagine envision being there
My camera sits to the left of my bed
I grab pack and head out with it.
This is the goal, the sole priority
I dream think work only towards it
Sometimes, I stumble upon errors,
But I learn and I grow
I move towards the path
Of Living My Dream!"
Awards
Recently, WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY ORGANIZATION - My image shortlisted out of 52,323 images entered from 171 countries and will be published in the Sony World Photography Awards winner's book and digitally at Somerset House, as part of World Photo, London from 27th April - 20th May, 2012.
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