In the summer of 2025 I was lucky to be accompanied to Bihar by friend and veteran photographer Jenny Matthews. She and I met in Afghanistan in 1988 when I was part of an all-female TV crew making a documentary about women. Jenny took still photographs to document our work. She went on to dedicate her professional life to photographing women and girls in conflict zones throughout the world, usually slipping into these areas after the global Press herd had been and gone. https://jennymatthews.photoshelter.com/index

More recently Jenny has been documenting the work of Second Sight in Bihar.
In this our 25th anniversary year I cannot think of a more fitting way to celebrate the faculty of sight and the immense power of seeing than to showcase the pictures she took this summer. In today’s world, when visual documentation can sadly no longer be totally trusted as representations of real life because of manipulation, enhancement and AI-generated fakery, Jenny’s honest, uncontaminated photos are of huge historical value.
I would urge you to view them on a laptop rather than on a mobile phone. And to view the slideshow twice – once paying attention to my captions, then ignoring them.
Give yourself the chance for contemplation, for looking harder, for second sight.

Click on the link
https://vimeo.com/1125182857
Lucy Mathen