Balaji Maheshwar Photobook: Dear Cinema, Dear Cinema, (2013–Present) is the artist’s confrontation of his relationship with his father and his family’s chequered history with the world of cinema. The publication assembles Maheshwar’s documentation of family photographs from his grandfather’s time as an actor, layered into the present day photographs of his father’s daily life. As […]| Alkazi Foundation
PERCY KAKI Photobook: This is a Protest In her photobook, This is a Protest (2021), the artist traces the afterlife of the 1991 Tsunduru Massacre in Andhra Pradesh. The Reddy landowners targeted the Dalit inhabitants with the alleged assistance of the village police. Kaki visualizes the absences, hauntings, dissonances, and erasure that have subsequently affected […]| Alkazi Foundation
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Amarnath Praful’s project investigates the inextricable link between Indian Ocean studies and the material, sociological, representational and labour histories of colonial photography in the subcontinent. Focusing on three distinct and interconnected sites – the port as a portal; the ship as icon, architecture, spectacle and metaphor; and the seascape as absence/erasure of the political, Praful hopes to examine 19th and 20th-century photographs of India in the V&A collections, considerin...| Alkazi Foundation
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MANAS DAXINI Photobook: Zoov Gang The word ‘Zoov’, as read in the book’s title was observed by the author in Kashmir when he saw the graffiti ‘Zoov Gang’ painted on a corrugated partition in Pulwama, a region 25 km from the capital Srinagar, impacted greatly by conflict. Daxini mentions how the word itself, perhaps derivate of […]| Alkazi Foundation
GAYATRI GANJU Photobook: The Pregnant Tree Gayatri Ganju’s meticulously hand-crafted photobook explores the deep connection nurtured by the Kurumba with the forests. An adivasi community of the Nilgiri mountains, their oral storytelling tradition anchors Ganju’s interaction with multiple generations in three different villages from 2016 onwards. The narrative meld of images presented in ‘The Pregnant […]| Alkazi Foundation