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Photography for Writers

October 18, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Why does a writer aspire to make a book of photographs like a traditional photographer did, like me for eg. Why does the writer look to the 'approach' to photography as a traditional photographer did, which more often than not often was 'project' based, for a variety of reasons. Why…

Foot Path faculty for Art colleges in India

October 17, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Dear Striking and other Art college students. The strikes at our colleges are terrible and one hopes will be resolved asap, but this could also be a great opportunity to develop a , much needed, parallel form of Arts education. During the strike at the Delhi College of Art a…

Editing Sequencing and FORM

October 10, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Dear Photographers, making 'good' photographs is just not enough, there are thousands made each day, I think as ' working photographers' one has to learn to edit ones own work and the sequencing and then finding the suitable form for that suite of images. Often the form presents itself, in…

The economy of FILM and its contact sheets

October 9, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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I still use film, I like how it slows me down, how it forces me to focus before I make an image. Digital has other properties ofcourse, we all know those but 120 film and hasselblad and tripod are the tools that work best for my slow release imagery. 12…

A space between Publishing and the Art gallery?

October 3, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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I dream of a space between publishing and the Art gallery, a space that takes the best of both worlds and makes a third space from them. That takes on distribution and dissemination ( not always the same thing) of the publishing world and the making of 'Art" aspect from…

Please wait to join the gallery dear aspiring artist

September 29, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Dear Aspiring Artist You finish Art college and you dream of being picked up by a gallery, and then you think you will become an Artist. If only it were so simple, the gallerists would also be artists along with hundred other people. If there is any other profession you…

Photography is just the starting point

September 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Photography is just the starting point, by no means an end in itself. The raw material to make something with. Only 10% of my work is the making of photographs, its after the images build up that the real work starts, first the ruthless the editing, weeding out, then a…

I do what I do because I have to

September 25, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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I do what I do because I have to. I am sorry I cannot make work to please you my friend. The day I do, will be the day to call it quits.

Naoya Hatakeyama- Who is that Someone, the addressee?

September 17, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Dayanita Singh — The Adventures of a Photographer When we’re organizing the photographs we’ve taken, we leave this one, discard that one, and so on, and at the same time it’s like we’re imagining in our minds someone’s surprised face, or someone’s slight smile just as they come to speak…

On Anxieties and Growing pains

September 10, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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I met Mary Ellen mark, when I barged into her workshop for Friends of Photography in Varanasi. I think it was 1986. She made me her teaching assistant so i could attend the workshop which I could not afford. One of the most important advice she gave me, was to…

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