LECTURES & DISCUSSIONS
Keynote Address by David Campany
In his keynote speech David Campany explores the tension that exists between affection and suspicion in our relationship to contemporary photography.
David Campany is a British writer, scholar, curator and artist working mainly in photography. He currently holds a post as teacher in photography theory and practice at the University of Westminster, London UK.
Courtesy: British Council, India.
Panel Discussion – What is Photography in the 21st Century?
As images may no longer be made by the act of taking a photograph, an eminent panel discusses what is photography any more.
Panelists: Regina Anzenberger, Artist, Founder and Director Anzenberger Agency, Austria
(Coutesy Austrian Cultural Forum, New Delhi) | Devika Daulet Singh, Founder and Owner Photoink Gallery, New Delhi | David Campany, Writer, scholar, curator, artist and lecturer at the Unversity of Westminster, UK (Courtesy: British Council, India) | Rob Hornstra, Photographer, Holland |
Rahaab Allana, Curator Alkazi Foundation and Editor of Pix Quarterly (Moderator)
Symposium – Engaging Communities: Taking Photography Beyond Photographers
A lecture by P Sainath on his PARI initiative, followed by a discussion with Kashmir Photo Collective, Nepal Photo Project & India Photo Project
Altaf Qadri, India
Anay Mann, India
Anne Golaz, Switzerland
Courtesy: Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council
Aradhana Seth, India
Chien-Chi Chang, Taiwan
Mahendra Sinh, India
Naoya Hatakeyama, Japan
Courtesy: Japan Foundation
Nandan Ghiya, India
Olivier Culmann, France
Courtesy: Institut Francais en Inde
Olivia Arthur, UK
Courtesy: British Council, India
Philipp Ebeling, Germany
Courtesy: British Council, India
Ram Rahman, India
Roger Ballen, USA
Courtesy: Photoink
Rob Hornstra, Netherlands
Sarker Protick, Bangladesh
Yoshikatsu Fujii, Japan
Vivan Sundaram, India
BOOK LAUNCHES
Nazar Photography Monographs 03, Kanu's Gandhi
Amit Mehra, Roznaama
Sam Harris, The Middle of Somewhere
Chien-Chi Chang, Jet Lag
Olivia Arthur, Stranger & Phiilip Ebeling, Land without Past
PERFORMANCES
Ocean Size
Still Dirty, India
The band performs to images by the following photographers: Akanksha Sharma, Alisa Resnik, Cyril Costilhes, Igor Pisuk, Leonard Pongo, Lorenzo Castore, Magdalena Wywrot, Scott Typaldos, Tiane Doan de Champassak, Ying Ang and Yusuf Sevincli.
Jeet Thayil’s nomadic music project began in Berlin in 2013. The Delhi edition of
Still Dirty features a group of extraordinary musicians from the city’s independent music scene: Anup Kutty, founder member of Menwhopause; Tony Guinard, who works with The Ska Vengers and Jazz B’Stards, among others; Akshat Taneja of Faridkot and Udan Tashteri; and Bhanu Thakur of Menwhopause.
In the Footsteps / Ballet
Sahil Vasudeva, India
Piece 1: Igor Posner - In the Footsteps
Composed to Igor Posner’s On second thoughts.
Piece 2 : Alexey Brodovitch - Ballet
Exploring the book through the music of Ravel and Chopin.
Sahil is one of the few musicians in India who perform western classical music. He wishes to revive the art of solo piano performances, share the depth and his passion for classical composition.
Of River and Lost Lands
Sarker Protick, Bangladesh
The relationship between man and river; intimate and ruthless. For generations people live by it. We find dependency and destruction at the same time. It’s a contradictory affair. The river gives so much to its people and at times it takes away everything.
Sarker Protick came to photography when one day during his graduate studies at University, he decided to take a picture of the sun with a camera phone. The bright sun immediately crashed his phone, the light proving too intense for his camera, but it did ignite his desire to make pictures.
Photo-poetry: Ecstasies and other Teresian visions
Avani Tanya, India; Gayatri Ganju, India; & Diniz Sánchez, Portugal
Performance based on a photographic translation of the poetry of Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, one of the foremost mystic writers.
Photographers Avani Tanya and Gayatri Ganju will give us their particular view on four of her poems. Choreographer Diniz Sanchezwill create a dance on the same poems that the photographers have been working on.
The Photo-poetry series is curated by Jesús Clavero Rodríguez