PIX Posts

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.

  • My Afghan Photo Album

    Nazes Afroz

    18 Aug, 2021

    A TV camerawoman vying for a spot among male colleagues to cover the Nowruz celebration, Kabul, 2014 The news comes in waves. The Taliban have completed their takeover of...

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Aug 11

Landscape as Language : In...

Veeranganakumari Solanki

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...

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Jun 29

Transitioning Images: Lubna...

Veeranganakumari Solanki

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...

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Jun 4

Both/And: Shezad Dawood

Interview by Veeranganakumari Solanki

Still from Kalimpong,  VR environment, duration variable, 2016, Courtesy: UBIK Productions. London-based artist Shezad Dawood’s practice straddles film, images, sculpture, sound, virtual...

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May 28

The sonic imagery of...

Veeranganakumari Solanki

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...

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May 16

Worlding a Rhythm with...

Interview by Veeranganakumari Solanki

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...

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May 8

Photographing Place and...

Interview by Veeranganakumari Solanki

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...

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Apr 23

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...

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Mar 18

Photography beyond its...

Anisha Baid

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,...

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Mar 12

Collapsing Binaries in...

Anisha Baid

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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