Blog – Dayanita Singh

Photo Fiction

June 30, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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PHOTO FICTION June 16, 2016Dayanita Singhfelice beato, Hippolyte Bayard, National geographic, photo fiction, photography lies, Robert Doisneau, Steve Mccurry, storyteller You know, I really dont care how a photograph was made, whether by construction, or by suggestion or by intervention or even by photoshop. I am interested in what a…

Museum of Chance @Hawamahal, closing 20th March

March 16, 2016May 10, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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by S Prasannarajan The Hawa Mahal in Jaipur is an unlikely backdrop for the book reborn as a visual sensation. Still here I am, braving the labyrinthine alleys of souvenir kiosks and other kitschy delights on a dusty winter afternoon for my moment with a book within a book within…

Book Object @Hawamahal Jaipur

January 4, 2016April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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BookObjectHawaMahal invitation On 20th January 2016 I will open the exhibition BOOK OBJECT Museum of Chance at Hawa Mahal Jaipur. The exhibition will be open daily from 9 am until 5 pm. It will stay on until 20th March. I am very happy to present this at a time when the…

Move over photographers / The Maya Factor

December 5, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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[caption id="attachment_59" align="alignnone" width="480"] Angry Indian goddesses set[/caption] The real heroine of ‪ Angry Indian goddeses is Maya , the 6 year old photographer with her iphone. Pan Nalin points to the future of Photography in his film, a child can record the world as she witnesses it, and they can be THE photographs…

The Mother of all languages

November 23, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Dear Aspiring Writers. Photography is the new language, read and written by all people, regardless of their spoken language or their literacy level. So its not even like Mandarin or French or Tamil or English, its all of them put together, and more. Imagine the power of such a language.…

Dancing with the Hasselblad

November 18, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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My course in Photography, would be called Dancing with the Hasselblad. I would choreograph it with Mark Morris. If photography is about your point of view, literally, then how can everyone photograph from within a space of 30cm ( Camera in front of eyes or there about) .Why is it…

Photographer or Photoscanner

November 6, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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If you wonder why your photos look like everybody else, get yourself a light meter and learn how to measure light as YOU see it. It will also slow you down and force you to make a more considered image. Its really about how you measure the light and where…

Frame and focus – Photography and life.

November 1, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Its really about how you frame and what you decide to focus on. How you balance the light. Where you keep the highlights. How much darkness you allow into a situation. How sharp you make the shadows.How you allow the room to fill with light, more importantly what kind of…

Slow down you shoot too fast

October 30, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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These are the tools of my trade, I have been using the same camera, same 80mm lens and same minolta light meter for almost 20 years. TRIX 400 is the film I have used since I started photography in 1980. I know these tools like the back of my hand.…

Hello Soloists- Artemis was already there

October 28, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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HELLO fellow SOLOISTS- I was wondering how to start the conversation on being a soloist, a term I started to use when 'single' seemed like you had not quite coupled, and I wanted a word that was not connected to coupling and familying anyway. A name for people who preferred…

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