The Alkazi Foundation for the Arts (AFA) is a Registered Charitable Trust in New Delhi (India), dedicated to the preservation and study of the cultural history of India. Ebrahim Alkazi, the Foundation’s Chairman and Director, has amassed a private collection of 19th- century photographs, the Alkazi Collection of Photography (ACP) as well as materials relating to post-Independence theatre in India, the Alkazi Theatre Archives (ATA). Both the collections are housed at the AFA, which carries o...| alkazifoundation.org
In partnership, the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT), the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), and the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts (AFA), collectively announce the second visiting Curatorial Research Fellowship.| Alkazi Foundation
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
ZISHAAN A LATIF| Alkazi Foundation
Conversation on Zoe Leonard’s Al Rio/To the River project (Ursula: A Magazine of Contemporary Culture, Issue 11, Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 18 October 2024)| Alkazi Foundation
Open Call: PARA| Alkazi Foundation
JURY BIOS| Alkazi Foundation
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
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.| Alkazi Foundation
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