Indian Photo Festivals – Business As Usual | Part 2

PhotoMail — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 00:07:47 +0000

The Indian Photography Festival 2018 certainly leaves one wondering about what is so Indian about it; if it is, as claimed, only a geographical marker, how does one account for the large regions that are left unrepresented? One has to hazard a guess as to what really constitutes this Indianness, and if the claims are kept aside and the images surveyed, we are confronted with the truth of this Indianness – it is a construction rooted in what can be called a “global culture”, and can shape shift into whatever is needed of it.

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Indian Photo Festivals – Business As Usual | Part 1

PhotoMail — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 07:22:11 +0000

Not to be left behind, the ‘Indian’ part of IPF peddles the same narratives that were used by the colonial empire – that of a beautiful land worthy of investment, and that of a people still struggling with modernity – albeit this time the narration is partially to itself, specifically to the modernized urban class.

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Indian Photo Festivals – Business As Usual | Part 2

Indian Photo Festivals – Business As Usual | Part 1