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Building Museum Bhavan

September 9, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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' Starting with Sent a Letter I began to explore the idea of the book as an exhibition. This led me in 2013 to the Museum bhavan. I think I had always known the book was my form, the tactile book that you held in your hands The Zakir book…

Anna Atkins Prize for Indian male Photographer

September 1, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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The AAPIMP award is announced in the memory of the woman who invented creative photography Anna Atkins. I think we can call her the MOTHER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, the men provided the tools, she made poetry out of them. In 1843 Anna Atkins made (self produced and self published) the first…

SUCCESS gets in the way

August 31, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Atleast in being an Artist ,Success and Failure are two completely meaningless words. The sooner one can delete them, the easier things will be, the richer ones exploration will be.They were never part of my vocabulary, even when I was your age. I try to address them now, as I…

Failure is not an option

August 30, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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My dear younger friends, the few that I have spent time with, you are so full of fear, so afraid of failure, you want to be guaranteed of success before you start something new, but what if I say there is no failure. That was not an option ever for…

Ongoing Moment and Zona

August 29, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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[caption id="attachment_152" align="alignnone" width="300"] Geoff dyer, genre defying author[/caption] If not all ,then please atleast read Ongoing moment, a history of the medium through the themes in Photography. Though Zona is an amazing work, its takes you through one of the most memorable films ever STALKER, a must see film,…

Photography fantasy III

August 29, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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[caption id="attachment_135" align="alignnone" width="300"] Photo by Nony Singh[/caption] Nony Singh and her sisters, managed to see Gone with the Wind, at a time when it was forbidden for girls from good families to go to the cinema. Nony Singh then asked her sister Guddi to pose as Scarlett O Hara.…

Photography starts now

August 28, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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My essay for Blink, on their issue on Cell phones http://goo.gl/GuOpJh Photography starts Now Cell phones have made Photography into what it always set out to be: a universal and democratic language. Everyone that has a mobile phone can participate in a conversation with images, regardless of the verbal language that…

Selfie worthy monuments

August 27, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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Mayawati needed to hire a Selfie scholar or a Photographer, if she wanted to bring more people to her monumental parks in noida and Lukhnow. Todays monument's significance depends on how selfie worthy they are. Taj mahal wins hands down. Hordes of selfie armed visitors. Atleast 10 different angles possible.…

In conversation with T M Krishna – A voice of ones own

August 27, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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The key for my work is conversation, one of the most memorable conversations I had was with T M Krishna, on stage! at the Hindu Lit fest. Riyaaz, rigour, the process of enquiry, and all that goes into a voice of ones own, which is never a voice of ones…

Music and the Photo Book

August 26, 2015April 19, 2016 by Dayanita Singh

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DS- “The fascinating part is that there is the blank page and the image filled page. And in that interaction between the silent and the visual, and the interlaying of the text and the way it interacts with the image and the lack of the image , is where book magic…

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