Nothing tellsthe truth like self portaits. One of the sex workers participating in this project said, "My hands shivered when I held a camera for the first time. Now I can go back to the village swirling the camera on my finger." The Me by Me project is a UNDP initiative that conducted capacity building workshops in pictorial documentation to sex workers (male and female) and their children. The reality of sex workers is often documented from the perspective of project planners and implementers. They are yet to move beyond the box of being recipients of ‘welfare schemes’ and ‘health education’. They are also relentlessly part of debates about the ‘rightness’ of their existence. In all this, their realities often get muddied in theories and moral discourses. I devised a 41 day project in 2007 in which 426 sex workers from 16 districts in 6 Indian states participated, The project was supported by 7 trainers, 46 individuals from 34 NG...