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| Controversial portfolio fashion shoot photos taken down after uproar (Raj Shetye/TG) |
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Indian photographer Raj Shetye is criticized after posing fashion models in scenes echoing brutal and fatal assault of woman on bus.
He has sparked outrage for a fashion shoot that depicted a woman being assaulted on a bus, echoing a fatal gang-rape that shocked the nation.
The project, called
The Wrong Turn, appeared in his online portfolio and was then taken down, but not before coming to the attention of the media.
The photos show a female model dressed in high-end fashion garments being groped on a bus by a group of men, also fashionably dressed, in various poses.
In one image the woman is on the floor with a man standing over her, while one shows her struggling with two men gripping her arms and another has two men pinning her down on the seats.
The shoot has drawn a torrent of criticism in India, where the fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in December 2012 sparked nationwide protests over levels of sexual violence against women.
Nirmala Samant, chairwoman of the National Commission for Women, has written to Mumbai’s chief of police calling for an investigation over the photographs.
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