Self portrait Movement
I would like to give you a quick overview of the first edition of Mothers United Moment (MUM).
MUM 2022 will be held from 10 to 14 November this year, and feature 100 mothers as chief delegates, including Olympians, Air Force officers, sportswomen, doctors, and other notable people from across 31 countries – a cohort that I, Shikha Khanna have personally selected and brought together in an upcoming coffee table book called 100 self portrait 100 dreams . This book will be launched at the MUM 2022 The 100 mothers will be accompanied by a larger gathering of supporters, who together will enable MUM 2022 to serve two objectives:
First, as a platform spotlighting the uniquely incredible strengths, capabilities and perspectives that mothers alone possess. These are qualities taken for granted and thus sometimes undervalued in how much impact they can have on people, communities, and causes.
Second, to act as a launchpad to co-create real-world opportunities to leverage mothers’ innate, powerful qualities. MUM 2022 will start an ecosystem of mutual support and societal admiration to establish mothers as entrepreneurs and changemakers who take on universal issues that mothers face.
Across the five days, participants will come together in events curated to promote collaboration, networking, and dialogue – vital to drive MUM 2022’s sense of collective purpose.
The event will promote a warmer holistic vision of the future – that there are opportunities at every corner and mutually prosperous futures can be sown and raised the best way possible – by nurturing them together.
MUM 2022’s goal is to place mothers at the centre of an inclusive, international ecosystem of mutual support, social change, and enterprise.
Your support will enable us to create this transformational moment of empowerment that will not only benefit mothers, but the many people whose lives they will touch.
To conclude, I’d like to leave you with a quote that has deeply inspired me:
“Only mothers can think of the future because they give birth to it.”
Maxim Grosky
Regards
Shikha Khanna
Photographer,Visual Content Coach and a Self Portrait Expert
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About Shikha Khanna
Shikha Khanna is a portrait photographer who has studied photography from International College of Professional Photography (ICPP). She is also a visual content coach and a self portrait expert
At the moment she is heading a global self portrait movement in which she is featuring 100 moms across the globe in a coffee table book called 100 self portrait 100 dreams. She was possibly India’s first photographer who specialized in photographing newborn babies, would be moms, pets and families, when she started 20 years back. She has Photographed more than 1000 Families over the last 20 years. She runs a company under the name of “Kids Say Cheese”.
She has done a number of projects with various schools like DPS International, Aravali International School, Learning Lighthouse, Cambridge University (London) etc. She is also involved with “Delhi Poetree”, with the project of shooting 200 contemporary poets.
Shikha has also done a lot of work with street children including photo presentations for social causes for ICONGO NGO award functions, Footpathshala etc and continues to contribute to the society with her photography.
She has also been teaching photography for the past 10 years and now specializes in teaching iPhone photography. She was a professor in JIIMs, and is presently taking many online classes with iphone. She has been conducting practical photography workshops under the name of PHOTOGRAPHY MADE LIGHT since 2007. She has been teaching online photography classes to grade 6, 7 & and 8 in inventure academy during covid time. She has conducted four 5 Day photography challenges with more than 100 participants in the last two years.
Shikha Khanna likes to work with natural light and shoot people in their own environment. She believes that every human face has a beautiful inner light and she likes to capture that light in her photographs. (Please find attached some work samples). Her current project with 100 moms across the world has been highly appreciated. She is now being invited on stages like Rotary to talk about the same .
