Tribal designers and photographers from Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Karnataka and , Assam, Sikkim, Manipur and Nagaland participated in two very stimulating and engaging sessions with experts from Nigeria and Cook Islands to understand the various approaches of documenting tribal communities and their culture through photography.
Nigerias first World Press Photo Award winning former Reuters photographer, Akintunde Akinleye provided insights on how the mundane and often ignored values of indigenous communities could be captured to present the realities in a very aesthetic manner. Akintunde, also a visual anthropologist, shared his approach of recording HISTORY through his work at Makoko a settlement of indigenous communities on water in the heart of Lagos, Nigeria.