Tamil Nadu teens capture India's labourers in pictures

Teen photographers showcased the backbreaking work done by India's 400 million labourers.

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The photograph is one of several snapped by student Rashmitha T in her village in Tamil Nadu, featuring her neighbours who make traditional Indian cigarettes called beedis.

"No-one knows about their work. Their untold stories need to be told," Rashmitha told the BBC.

Her pictures were featured in a recent exhibition about India's labourers titled The Unseen Perspective at the Egmore Museum in Chennai.

All the photographs were taken by 40 students from Tamil Nadu's government-run schools, who documented the lives of their own parents or other adults.

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