150 Years of Photography from India, Pakinstan and Bangladesh

After beeing shown at the Whitechapel in London, the 400 photos exhibition 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakinstan and Bangladesh will travel to Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland from the the 12th of June until the 22nd of August.
A symposium on South-Asia photography will be organised on the 12th and the 13th of June.  Among the different photographers and critics attending this event, will be Sunil Gupta, Dayanita Singh, Aveek Sen.


More information here:

http://www.fotomuseum.ch/


A review of the event at the Whitechapel is available through the following links:
Magnumphotos.com 

Thefreelibrary.com
Coolhunting.com
Lintermede.com
Asian Art Newspaper

The Guardian

An international residency for Sohrab Hura in Niort, France

During the month of August, Sohrab Hura is doing a residency organised by Pour l'instant, a non profit organisation that seeks to promote young international photographers, in Niort, France.
He, along with the seven other young photographers in residence, will be coached by a well-experienced photographer and a technical advisor.

More information on this project is available on: http://www.pourlinstant.com/

Vidura Jang Bahadur - Teresa Tan and Li Yang Liang - Chennai, 2006

The picture belongs to a work on the Chinese community in India started in 2006 and calls "Home".

Vidura takes us into the world of sisterhood and “parlour“-hood  inhabited by two sisters in law.

The timelessness of this moment is enclosed in this home cum-beauty parlour where the simple act of washing a woman’s hair encapsulates their shared comfort.

 The mise en scène comprising of the single source of light, the central whirring fan and the simple décor is visualized in this panoramic shot, almost like a still frame from a film reel.

Vidura Jang Bahadur - Picture of my grandmother - Bangalore, 2008

Vidura Jang Bahadur is a young photographer who lives in Delhi.

He has lived in China for over three years.

This picture belongs to a series on his grandmother started in 1997 which is still in progress.

Here, Vidura captures a moment of deep concentration and calm while his grandmother is praying in the morning time.

The lens comes so close to the subject isolating her from her material environment representing a rare moment of meditation.

The gnarled long fingers sure of their touch on the rosary perform the repetitive act of prayer. This movement captured by the photographer then becomes the focal point of her intense concentration leaving the rest of her body immobile.