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Atul Bhalla is Cornell University's South Asia Program's Virtual Artist-in-Residence. His Artist Talk, "You Always Step into the Same River," will focus on his preoccupation with all aspects of water-- accessibility, sustainability, it's political, religious, and historical entanglements etc.-- in the urban environment of Delhi, India.
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Cornell University, South Asia Program
Qiana Mestrich has contributed an essay to Nueva Luz volume 24:2, which is presented as an exhibition catalog for Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives. Her essay is titled, “Dos Mundos: A Photographic Frame Switching Between Cultures.” Dos Mundos was curated by Stephenie Lindquist and Juanita Lanzo, responds to contemporary circumstances and inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.
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NUEVA LUZ volume 24:2
Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives
Qiana Mestrich wrote an essay on the British photographer Cian Oba-Smith's documentary photography series on the impact of systemic and economic racism on the historically Black community of Syracuse, New York. Check out Oba-Smith's work and Mestrich's essay at the link below.
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Light Work Collection: Cian Oba-Smith
Collector/scholar Omar Khan & sepiaEYE Director, Esa Epstein discuss Khan’s latest collection and book, Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj (Mapin/Alkazi Collection of Photography, 2018) in collaboration with Chennai Photo Biennale & 10x10 Photo Books. The recorded talk may be accessed below.
Chennai Photo Biennale (Link to Event)
Read moreAnnu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Portfolio 2 of An Indian from India will be on view in its entirety in “version 2.0” of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Women Breaking Boundaries exhibition. The exhibition explores the role of women in art and art history through works from the permanent collection created by artists from the seventeenth century to today.
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Cinncinati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
USA
The first publication by femalephotographers.org, a new collective of which Qiana Mestrich is a part, is A Visual Conversation about Bodies, "The Body Issue," published by Hatje Cantz. The book addresses the depiction of bodies and the perception of them. Edited by Elisabeth Biondi with text by Emma Lewis.
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Female Photographers Org
The Body Issue
September 2, 2020
The PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series has moved online. sepiaEYE Director, Esa Epstein, gave a talk on September 2nd which is available to stream on the sepiaEYE Vimeo page
Esa Epstein | PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series
PGH Photo Fair
Carnegie Museum of Art: Hall of Sculpture
Pittsburgh, USA
Beatrice Pediconi, whose video works Alien (2016) and Untitled 2015 are projected onto Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library's facade as part of the summer Cinema Ephemera program, will be part of a online video discussion.
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Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library
In the finishing changes of production, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva. Dr. Shiva is a prominent face of the food justice movement, taking on Monsanto and industrial agriculture. Pamela Singh’s documentary photography on the original eco-warriors, the treehuggers of Chipko is featured in the film. To view more works in this series, please click here.
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The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
Two works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series will be up for in this benefit auction to support art, artists, and the Museum.
Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, Rhode Island
USA
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Daughters from her An Indian from India series is on view in the George Eastman Museum’s exhibition, History of Photography.
“This selection of photographs commemorates the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment granted American women the right to vote (though many women continued to be prevented from exercising that right). This installation examines how photography has portrayed, and fundamentally shaped, perceptions of women and feminist movements since the mid-1800s.”
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George Eastman Museum
Rochester, NY
Art Gallery of Ontario will be exhibiting works by Bhupendra Karia (1936-1994) in a look at the global documentary photography from the 1960s and 1970s, timed to open with the annual CONTACT photography festival.
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON Canada
Congratulations to Vivan Sundaram for being honored with the Vanguard Award at the Asia Society's Asia Arts Game Changer Award Gala on February 1, 2020. Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India is a signature gala celebration honoring the Asia Arts Game Changers during the week of the India Art Fair in New Delhi. The Awards pay tribute to artists and arts professionals who have made a significant contribution to the development of modern and contemporary art in Asia and who inspire a deeper empathy and understanding of the world through their work.
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Asia Arts Game Changer Awards India
The Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi
Atul Bhalla's work is in We are Still Alive: Strategies in Surviving the Anthropocene, curated by Dr. Arshiya Lokhandwala for the Shalini Passi Foundation. "We are Still Alive in the sculpture garden of IIC is an exhibition by Delhi artists who have experienced the poor air / water quality, congestion, pollution in the city, change in the temperature and water levels. The artists address these issues as a public art project. Each work provokes viewers to think about these important issues that effect their health, food and quality of life. The exhibition is a shout out to the public to mobilize themselves to bring the required changes in this critical crisis moment while We are Still Alive."
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Mash Sculptural Space, India International Centre
New Delhi
Pamela Singhs's self-portraits in Lutholim, Goa will be on view in the third edition of the GoaPhoto International Photography Festival. “One of the themes explored is "The Private / The Domestic;" the festival venues lend themselves to a type of photography which is private or which makes reference to issues of domesticity... Pamela Singh’s self-portraits taken in the village of Lutholim are the closest we have to Francesca Woodman in India, both photographers sharing a confidence in the expressive capabilities of their own bodies."
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GOAphoto International Photography Festival
Aldona, Goa, India
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew's An Indian from India series will be exhibited in Returning the Gaze: From the Colonial to the Contemporary alongside works by Indu Antony, Anoli Perera, Gauri Gill, Michael Buhler-Rose, Pushpalama N., and Clare Arni as part of the Greetings from India segment of the Jimei X Arles 2019 International Photography Festival.
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Returning the Gaze: From the Colonial to the Contemporary
Jimei X Arles 2019 International Photography Festival
THREE SHADOWS XIAMEN PHOTOGRAPHY ART CENTRE
Xiamen, China
Works from Osamu James Nakagawa's series, Kai, are featured in the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s exhibition of 51 works by 45 artists—all of which were acquired in the past five years, Re/New: Recent Acquisitions by Contemporary Artists.
One of the images on view at the Eskenazi museum, is the image Morning Light. This image is featured in the 5th edition of Naomi Rosenblum's A World History of Photography, she says: "To counter Tolstoy: all families are different– whether happy or unhappy– and their intimacies and complexites are unique when seen through the eyes of different photographers … Osamu James Nakagawa, [has] conducted indefatigable, loving, unsentimental studies of their children in the process of growing up." (Naomi Rosenblum, A World History of Photography: 5th Edition Reprint Edition, 2019)
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Re/New: Recent Acquisitions by Contemporary Artists
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art
Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Osamu James Nakagawa ‘s works will be on display alongside works by Kitano Ken, Shiga Lieko, Fiona Tan, & Gerhard Richter in the exhibition, from the cave.
”The use of a ‘cave’ as a motif to explore the origins of our cognition has an unexpectedly wide application. In his ‘Allegory of the Cave’ the philosopher, Plato, hinted at the fundamental problem of ‘the virtual image and reality’ that underlies our perception of images. The religious scholar, Mircea Eliade, pointed out that caves are employed as places in which to reestablish one’s relationship with the outside world and re-assess oneself at a fundamental level.”
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from the cave
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Yebisu Garden Place
1-13-3 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-0062
Japan
Atul Bhalla’s Immersion will be a part of RAW: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism. The exhibition features nine contemporary artists who work with a range of commodities as artistic material to explore the historical and contemporary effects of global capitalism. Their deliberate use of these materials acknowledges the complex and enduring legacy of capitalistic structures, such as slavery, colonialism, and industrialization, and their human and environmental impact.
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RAW: Craft, Commodity, and Capitalism
Craft Contemporary
5814 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
USA
Chennai Photo Biennale is excited to present a Panel Discussion on Family Portraiture between photo-based artist Annu Matthew and fine art photographer Martine Fougeron.
Family photos are an essential testimony of the way of life of a given period of time. They inform on the social status of the subject family, the event for which photo was taken, the selection of family members displayed in the photo. The usual family patterns have been married couples with children, sometimes along with the grandparents. The group that is now considered to be a family is no longer with the same cast. On the photographer's side, the information lies on his social status, on the image he reworks on to adjust the result to his own and the client's expectations.
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Family Portraiture: A discussion between Annu P Matthew and Martine Fougeron
Alliance Française of Madras
24, College Rd, Opposite Good Shepherd School, Subba Road Avenue, Nungambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600034
India