A PHOTOGRAPHIC RESPONSE

Nasrin Modak Siddiqi

"From 2016 to 2019, on the initiative of Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, an exchange programme was organised between the photography departments of the National Institute of Design (NID), Gandhinagar, and the Academy of Fine Arts (HGB), Leipzig. A total of 16 students and five teachers from the two institutions took part in this long-term project. Responses is a photography exhibition which emerged out of the four-year collaboration, which will be on display at the institute in Kala Ghoda from next week."

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CATCH A GLIMPSE OF YOUR HOMETOWN HERE!

"Swasti Bharti who was born and brought up in Chennai, shows how in 28 years of her life, she has seen so many changes in not only in the city but also in herself. “I was trying to look at myself from my childhood till now. I captured micro elements that defined me and the place around me. May be because I am a biologist I look at things very minutely. Every time I come back home, I am a new person. I try to find me here. I try to fit in to be the person I once was. This project is an attempt at scratching through the surfaces of the fuzzy remnants of my childhood and through this I have tried to reach for the person I once was,” she says."

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CHENNAI, THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S HOME TOWN

"The series, which will be exhibited at Chennai's Chintadripet Railway Station, will explore topics such as masculinity, personal memories, tradition, urbanisation and many more, leaving you with a profound and interesting portrait of Chennai. Exhibiting photographers include Sridhar Balasubramaniyam, Saravana Bharathi, Swasti Bharti, Sujanya Das, Vivek Mariappan, Mallika Rajkumar, Sharan Devkar, Shankar Varsha Narayanan and Johny Vinoth. The photographers are out with the series after undergoing a photography workshop organised by Ueberall and the CPB Foundation at Goethe-Institut."

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THREE WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS

S. Muthiah

"The world is shrinking by the day, I get convinced almost daily, reacting to the intriguing requests for information I get from unknown people. The latest is from Swasti Bharti, from Gandhinagar, who is tracking Wiele & Klein, or Klein & Peyerl, if you wish. She wanted more to their story than what I’d written in several places. I could add little. Then she came up with a googly. Had I heard of Del Tufo & Co? Sadly, neither I nor any other Madras expert had heard of it. But she was a better miner than us; she dug up an article written by Ismeth Raheem, a collector of old photographs in Colombo. He had discovered three 19th Century women photographers in Ceylon and one owned Del Tufo & Co., ‘artists and photographers’ in Colombo who had studios in the 1880s-90s in Bombay, Bangalore, Ooty, and Mount Road, Madras."

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