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Life in a Cage
Photograph by Jodi Cobb

Surekha has spent much of her life in this four-by-six-foot (one-by-two-meter) brothel cell in Mumbai, India. She sleeps, prepares her meals, and stores her few possessions here—and this is where she serviced the customer who infected her with HIV.

Camera: Nikon F100
Film Type: Kodachrome 200
Lens: 24mm
Speed and F-Stop: 1/8 @ f/2.8

Weather Conditions: Indoors
Time of Day: Unrecorded
Lighting Techniques: Available light