Le magazine Aperture présente un numéro spécial axé sur la relation entre la photographie, l’urbanisme et les trajectoires militantes à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur de Delhi.
Cet été, Aperture présente un numéro spécial consacré aux relations entre la photographie, l’urbanisme et les trajectoires militantes à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur de Delhi. Invité sous la direction de Rahaab Allana, la conservatrice principale de la Fondation Alkazi, le numéro explore de multiples incarnations de la culture photographique de la ville, des œuvres expérimentales d’O. P. Sharma des années 1960 aux tableaux intimes d’Aditi Jain de la communauté trans de Delhi aujourd’hui. Des entretiens avec l’écrivain vénéré Arundhati Roy et avec le photojournaliste le plus connu du Bangladesh, Shahidul Alam, éclairent les sites de protestation dans la ville et dans toute l’Asie du Sud. Skye Arundhati Thomas revisite les portraits féministes mis en scène de Sheba Chhachhi dans les années 80 et 90. Mettant en vedette un échantillon de créateurs d’images et de penseurs dynamiques, tels que Jyoti Dhar, Sunil Gupta, Ishan Tankha et Anshika Varma, et les voix émergentes Uzma Mohsin et Prathna Singh, le numéro est une méditation distinctive sur le régionalisme, la politique et l’identité, à travers des points de vue photographiques archivistiques et contemporains.
Aperture magazine presents a special issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from within and outside Delhi.
This summer, Aperture presents a special issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from within and outside Delhi. Guest edited by Rahaab Allana, the Alkazi Foundation’s lead curator, the issue explores multiple incarnations of the city’s photographic culture, from O. P. Sharma’s experimental works from the 1960s to Aditi Jain’s intimate tableaux of Delhi’s trans community today. Interviews with revered writer Arundhati Roy and with Bangladesh’s best-known photojournalist, Shahidul Alam, illuminate sites of protest in the city and throughout South Asia. Skye Arundhati Thomas revisits Sheba Chhachhi’s feminist staged portraits from the 1980s and ’90s. Featuring a cross section of dynamic image-makers and thinkers, such as Jyoti Dhar, Sunil Gupta, Ishan Tankha, and Anshika Varma, and emerging voices Uzma Mohsin and Prarthna Singh, the issue is a distinctive meditation on regionalism, politics, and identity, through archival and contemporary photographic viewpoints.
CONTENTS:
Agenda
Made in L.A., The Paradox of Stillness, Lorraine O’Grady, Lynn Hershman Leeson
Day Jobs
Rebecca Bengal on Susan Meiselas’s early collaborations in South Carolina
Spotlight
Mikelle Street on Donavon Smallwood’s images of Black tranquility in Central Park
Curriculum
Dawoud Bey on John Coltrane, Jason Moran, and the writing of Sarah M. Broom
WORDS
Guest Editor’s Note
The dynamic images and social landscapes of a restless city
Rahaab Allana
The City as a Novel
Arundhati Roy on life and politics in Delhi
A Conversation with Shohini Ghosh
The Photobook as Public Space
How can photobooks be a platform for personal narratives?
Deepali Dewan in Conversation with Indu Antony and Kaamna Patel
The Printed World
The midcentury magazine that offered cosmopolitan visions of India
Sabeena Gadihoke
Direct Action
Sheba Chhachhi and the spirit of feminist activism
Skye Arundhati Thomas
Visible Cities
The films of Anamika Haksar and Priya Sen
Latika Gupta
The Lives of Buildings
Photographing India’s modern architecture
Kaiwan Mehta
On Freedom and Resistance
Shahidul Alam on the images and activism that inspired a region
A Conversation with Christopher Pinney
We Were There
Sunil Gupta’s vision for a queer politics of belonging
Shanay Jhaveri
PICTURES
O. P. Sharma
Light Work
Diva Gujral
Uzma Mohsin
Songkeepers
Jyoti Dhar
Ishan Tankha
A Peal of Spring Thunder
Amitava Kumar
Aditi Jain
The Glow in the Mirror
Adwait Singh
Collective Shift
Across South Asia, photographers are banding together to tell new stories
Anshika Varma
Srinivas Kuruganti
American Diary
Sunaina Maira
Prarthna Singh
One Hundred Days of Resistance
Kamayani Sharma
Endnote
Seven questions for Ram Rahman
Resources to support COVID-19 relief in India
