As a representational genre, portraiture has a long and diverse history provoking intellectual debates across cultures and generations of artists, subjects, patrons, curators, critics, and viewers. It manifests in varied media as one of the most versatile forms to visually comment on the meaning of being human in a society. Portraits oscillate between mimesis and […]
Photographer-collector-film-maker Sanjeet Chowdhury’s photoessay title Matsya—35 mm is crafted out of years of engagement with fish culture in the port-cities of Calcutta (Kolkata) and Bombay (Mumbai). For at least two decades, Sanjeet looked at fish in their diverse forms as a signifier of cultural practices, a commodity, and an aesthetic object. Indeed, his meticulous attention […]
It is a series of work on children and I have chosen Linocut as the medium. This series is dedicated to all those children who went missing during the second world war and the Holocaust. A war in itself is an act of the irrational mind which otherwise makes no sense to ordinary people. It […]
Digging the grave I bring outfossils of my past life and see my spine bentby two hundred years of slavery in my chest the smell of damp soilin my fist the remnantof a broken plough digging the grave I bring outmy past filled with darkness I realize that everyone hasa history of travellingwith heads bowed […]
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Walter D’Souza, Lotus Soup For The Lions, 2019, Woodcut,
10.5 x 11.5 inches, Image Courtesy: The Artis
I have always been drawn to the work of Somnath Da and have been inspired by the deep empathyhe had for the downtrodden. This empathy has guided me over the years, as I have moved fromdrawing and painting beggars in the street, workers, ordinary people’s lives, the violence thatpervades our society, and finally the shadow […]
Radio Mirchi X Aravani Art Project #lionsofcovid The aravani art Project is an artistic collective that creates spaces for people from the transgender community to connect with other communities and cultures in their local neighborhoods. through public art and interventions, the aravani art Project reclaims the streets on which so many transgender people suffer violence […]
MEENA TRIBES , TONK DISTRICT, RAJASTHAN PRASHANTA SEAL, MATI The Meena Tribe is one of the oldest tribal communities in existence, and in current times mainly inhabit mainland Rajasthan. The history of this Adivasi tribal group dates back to the 6th century B.C, and the community claim to be descended from the Matsya avatar of […]
TARPANA Sanjay Das Tarpan or Tarpana means remembrance and has been formed from the root word ‘Trup’ which means satisfying others. The day is considered the day of remembrance of departed souls of family members and people pay obeisance to their forefathers on the banks of the river Ganga in Bengal. This day also heralds […]
Paris Palette Text & Photographs : Rupin Nair Thomas It was 2001, as I sat in my honors seminar class I was handed the reading package for the semester. We were to participate in a ‘conversation’ for a semester on Francis Fukuyama’s, The End of History and the Last Man. Immediately, the cynic that lived […]
‘Re-wheeling The Chakra’ A Delhi Silpi Chakra Retrospective
Project 080:30 and Live Art Lab, Bangalore, 2014 Priyanka Govil Bengaluru was bustling with performance art when I reached there on my first trip. 6 groups and individuals were supported by India Foundation for the Arts, Bangalore under it’s Project 560. I was part of 080:30 group during my stay there, by documenting their performances […]
“The Nanyang Spirit” An Aesthetic Voyage to Singapore!! Art & Deal Correspondent On Friday, 12th March, 2014, Art Spice gallery at The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa in collaboration with Singapore Art Society hosted the inauguration ceremony of the intriguing, large-scaled exhibition “The Nanyang Spirit”- an aesthetic voyage to Singapore. 01. 22 participating Singaporean artists of […]
Debadutta Saha B o u n d l e s s Chi ldhood . . . . . . . . . spotted at the Bank of river Brahmaputra, Tezpur, Assam, seems very rare in today’s fast and busy world. A sense of leasure mixed with the prick of reality, ran through my mind while […]
Aditya DhawanTaking photographs in the metro could be injurious to health because people do not like them to be ‘caught’ by others on camera. Their rebellion, however, does not work with the State that continuously records their activities via surveillance cameras fitted in every compartment. Hence, I would call Aditya Dhawan’s shots as candid shots […]
Gireesh GV “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” – Leonardo da Vinci I have been chewing on Da Vinci’s words since camera became my third eye. I believe photographer is a painter. I paint using light on […]
Ajaya kumar Spread throughout Tamilnadu are sculptural images of mythical/ancient characters (traditionally Panchapandavas) that belong to a unique art form worthy of being presented in contemporary mega shows like major Art fairs & the Biennials of our times. However, these art forms represent a different lineage to a certain extent, a broken lineage of folk […]
Dilip Banerjee I never thought of photography as a profession when pondering over my carrier options. But capturing the colours of human lives, the decisive moments in black and white without shades of grey is perhaps most rewarding. To me, while photography is an art, a visual narrative, photojournalism is knowledge.
Shefali Munjal I like to portray the people living on the edge. In the present series I have showed people from the high ranges like Leh and Laddakh. Serenity is a sort of predominant theme in my works though behind these calm portraits one can feel the precariousness of their lives. I try and seek […]
Pranab Seal As she steps forward a new world awaits her, land of dreams or land of dying hope where camouflaged demons await in gloom, from light to darkness is this right direction
The Miniature as Photo Backdrop Waswo X. Waswo’s Painted backdrops have been essential to my work over the past six years. Generally painted on linen, but also at times on canvas, they are created by a large number of craftsmen working in teams. Following my basic instructions, different lead artists direct their apprentice painters. Thus […]
WORKING CLASS SUPERHEROES Vikas Maurya The gaze of the juveniles into the camera, their awareness of being photographed exudes a confidence that can be drawn parallel to professional paid gazes erasing divisions of the rich and poor.
Partha Seal Theatre: I’ve been tired of performing on stage for vacant halls. It seems people are fed up of drama may be because they have too much of it in their lives. Or is it they seek entertainment and do not want true stories to be told through dramaturgy! Oh, the times they are […]
It’s not every day you see a girl with pink hair, rabbit ears and a pair of random foam dice dangling from the sides of her head wandering around outside in the rain with an acoustic guitar she never intends to play. But once every two months in Busan, you can see oddities such as […]
NATURE’S PERFECT CYCLE The sun emerges from the east. It showers the universe with its mystic light which we attribute as a bright sunny day. Everything occurs in perfect order in nature that man has consistently failed to adapt to. Th e cows emerge in the morning in a stream and go about their daily […]
HAND MADE MEMORIES – BIRENDRA PANI My present series of Conceptual Photographs are related to my experience of human life and material culture in contemporary time. Th ese were generated during my travel in diff erent spaces in India and abroad. I had started using the visual imagery of ‘capsule’ in the medium of printmaking […]
