PIX Posts presents an assortment of short articles and interviews around photography in or about South Asia through the points of views of researchers, academics, curators, editors and practitioners, with reference to recent projects, emerging archives/collections and theoretical standpoints.
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Landscape as Language : In...
Huma Mulji, The City of a Thousand Rebellions, Sarwar Road, 26th July 2011, Textiles Dyes on Canvas, 152.4 cm x 121.9, 2018. The image was taken on 26July 2011, as a functioning water tower in...
Read More.Transitioning Images: Lubna...
Left : Matthew Krishanu, Crow (blue head), 2015. Photo Peter Mallet Right: Lubna Chowdhary, Code 3, 2021. Image courtesy: Angela Moore Images relaying on a screen or printed as a photograph act...
Read More.Both/And: Shezad Dawood
Still from Kalimpong, VR environment, duration variable, 2016, Courtesy: UBIK Productions. London-based artist Shezad Dawood’s practice straddles film, images, sculpture, sound, virtual...
Read More.The sonic imagery of...
Savinder Bual, Pineapple Project, install shot at PEER, 2020, image credit Stephen White & Co. When an artist is considered ‘South-Asian’ or as part of the diaspora, they are...
Read More.Worlding a Rhythm with...
Chila Kumari Singh Burman, Hertford Bootle 1970, 2006. NOTE: The artwork features the artist's fathers ice cream van. Chila Kumari Singh Burman, a multidisciplinary artist based in...
Read More.Photographing Place and...
Left: Untitled, from the series Nim and Other Stories, 2012 Right: Street Scene with Bharat Stores, The Covid Triangle – for FT Magazine 2021 I completely reject this idea of holding...
Read More.New Terrain: In...
Screenshots from the art history timeline feature on Terrain.art Beth Citron is a curator and scholar who has worked extensively in the South Asian region. She is the Artistic Director for the...
Read More.Photography beyond its...
Unknown photographer (USA), Child sitting on lap of ‘hidden mother’ covered in striped blanket, 1870s, tintype (collodion negative on enamelled iron sheet).Courtesy of Linda Fregni Nagler,...
Read More.Collapsing Binaries in...
Man Ray, Blanche et Noire, 1926 negative print/gelatin silver photograph. Image from the cover of Negative/Positive (Routledge, 2020) by Geoffrey Batchen. This week, we had the pleasure of...
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