{"id":66085,"date":"2024-08-07T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/women-behind-the-lens-the-colour-the-light-the-happy-goat-the-scene-looked-like-a-painting"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T06:00:56","slug":"women-behind-the-lens-the-colour-the-light-the-happy-goat-the-scene-looked-like-a-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66085","title":{"rendered":"Women behind the lens: \u2018The colour, the light, the happy goat \u2013 the scene looked like a painting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In rural India many people treat animals as part of the family. In a break from fashion photography, Naveli Choyal wanted to capture this idea of coexistence<\/p>\n<p>I have this funny dog called Imli (tamarind in Hindi). She is beautiful and acts like a goat, with a free-spirited, wild nature. She wants to eat grass, and even looks a bit like a goat. She holds a very important place in my life. Every time I photograph an animal, I think of her.<\/p>\n<p>I took this picture of the happy goat on a work trip in Rajasthan. I\u2019d been watching it jump around, and all I could think of was my sweet little dog and how she also behaves in an unpredictable way. I\u2019m drawn towards animals; I like their company and spending time with them.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/navelichoyal\/p\/C5nJnSsI8zO\/?img_index=1\">Naveli Choyal is a photographer, fashion and jewellery designer<\/a>, art director and stylist based between <\/em><em>Delhi and Ajmer <\/em><em>in Rajasthan, India. She uses images to narrate stories of everyday life and talk about the relevance of culture, craft and tradition in today\u2019s modern and fast-paced lifestyle<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/women-behind-the-lens-the-colour-the-light-the-happy-goat-the-scene-looked-like-a-painting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In rural India many people treat animals as part of the family. In a break from fashion photography, Naveli Choyal wanted to capture this idea of coexistenceI have this funny dog called Imli (tamarind in Hindi). She is beautiful and acts like a goat, w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,62,92,61,617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-development","category-india","category-photography","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66086,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66085\/revisions\/66086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}