When images decode emotional inheritance…
(This article is based on Indian Visual Artist Ritika Singh’s long-term project To Be Held Someday) It is said that grief is love with nowhere to go. It is not simply about loss, but it is a way of understanding love. Visual Artist Ritika Singh understands the texture and depth of grief in a way others often […]
The Quiet weight of being seen
(An article based on South African Photographer Tsephiso Mazibuko’s long-term project There’s Always Someone Looking) Tshepiso Mazibuko’s photographs in There’s Always Someone Looking (Zulu: Awukho umdlalo ongena babukeli) do not scream out loud at the viewer. They come soft and a little blurry, with people hovering vaguely at the edges of spaces and the atmosphere of […]
The Archive Was Never Just a Storeroom
(This Article is based on an exclusive interview of Photography Educator, Faculty at Department of Photographic Design, NID Gandhinagar, Amarnath Praful with Indian DocumentaryPhoto Collective)
The Unspoken ‘rules’ of being a Woman in Public Spaces
Young artist Alifiyah Rajkotwala, through her work ‘Girl In Public’, explores the themes of shame, social conditioning, sexuality, and policing of women in society. Navigating the invisible yet rigid rules dictated to women in shared environments has profoundly shaped Alifiyah Rajkotwala’s life and art. Her recent project, Girl In Public, directly confronts and challenges these […]
‘Reimagining’ Women’s Place in Bengal’s Bohurupi Tradition
Lens based multidisciplinary Artist Shrabana Das traces the blurred out presence of women in one of Bengal’s dwindling folk cultures. Kolkata based multidisciplinary artist Shrabana Das’ Shape Shifting Ladies is a continuing project on women bohurupi — bohu meaning many, and rupi meaning forms — of Bishaypur, a far removed village in the interiors of […]
The Architecture of Memory shapes the Modern documentary narrative
(This Article is based on an exclusive interview of eminent photographer, writer and educator Tom Griggs with Indian Documentary Photo Collective)
Photojournalism: At the intersection of culture and commerce
(This article is based on an exclusive interview of eminent photographer Prashant Panjiar with Indian Documentary Photo Collective)
Unmasking the beauty of life and death
“Never have masks been so present in our lives as today”. SKIN DEEP aims to showcase that tension – a photographic project by Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko. She is a South African photographer
Women of Assam
I spent my childhood in a refugee colony. There I witnessed the hardship faced by refugee women. I saw my childhood friends becoming prostitute for survival.
My Home, My Home People
I was born in China, while my partner, Chris, who is twenty years older, was born in the United States and later established his life and career in China. Chris went out of his home two decades ago and was fully accepted. But, I have not been able to disclose my sexual preference to my […]