In the remote village Mawlynnong, a matrilineal society inspired a photographer to make portraits of self-assured young women.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/03/girls-rule-in-an-indian-village/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
But the jungle village of 500 residents offered a different lure for Karolin Klüppel, a Berlin-based photographer: It is home to the indigenous Khasi, one of the world’s rare matrilineal societies. When Ms. Klüppel heard about the Khasi during an artist-in-residency program in the western Indian state Goa, she knew she wanted to experience — and visually capture — something of this society.