If you are a lover of the arts, there is no better time to be in Chennai. As the all-encompassing ode to classical arts — the Margazhi season — came to an end , contemporary arts started taking over white cubes, museums campuses, shopping malls, and (soon) MRT stations in the city, much to the […]
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Interviewing artists is like being given a puzzle and trying to figure out which piece, where, created what part of the art. In the case of Sunil Gupta, the internationally renowned photographer makes it easy for us. For almost five decades, he has culled his work from his life, and the membrane between outside and […]
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The making of a biennale is all shades of chaos. A week ago, scaffoldings, stacked prints, and the trusty measuring tape were all that characterised the preparation for the ongoing fourth edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB). But today, an elderly woman with a cascading plait, walks straight into VR mall’s makeshift gallery, once […]
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Sujatha Shankar Kumar | Photo Credit: Sangita Rajan There are some elements that are essential to sustain life. Air, food, water, and shelter are what we know to be basic building blocks of civilization which transcends human life. Photographer, designer, and writer Sujatha Shankar Kumar explores the elements essential for life at her photography show […]
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The Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation’s hunt for impactful images with meaningful stories is now in its fourth year. The latest edition of the CPB Photo Awards saw a significant increase in entries, with over 9,700 from 300 plus cities across India. The five-member jury — including names such as Daniella Zalcman, photojournalist and founder of […]
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Your smartphone can take a photograph with its inbuilt camera, but can it also print one? That is where instant cameras score brownie points. The return of all things retro may have catalysed their popularity, but it would be naïve to believe that instant cameras and films are a thing of past. They have been […]
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An image from the World Cup series | Photo Credit: Vicky Roy Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid strike an effortless pose against a bright blue practice net wielding their weapon of choice, the bat. Look closer and you find that they are smaller in frame — children donning the masks of their favourite […]
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In 2015, when I quit my job as the editor of a fashion magazine to study photography in Paris, I was a senior student. Very senior. Imagine my surprise then when my international classmates — aged mostly between 18 and 28 — were all shooting film, something I’d given up in 2006. Like most photographers […]
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Let not the postponement of the main show of KMB-5 deter you from enjoying the spread of Invited Exhibitions and Satellite Shows across Fort Kochi and Mattancherry. With over 90 artists exhibiting in the city, a visitor to the Kochi Muziris Biennale can be forgiven for wondering which one to visit. Housed in heritage warehouses […]
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Chennai plans to ring in its birthday with a host of events starting this weekend. Follow this quick guide to celebrate 383 years of Madras Chennai plans to ring in its birthday with a host of events starting this weekend. Follow this quick guide to celebrate 383 years of Madras Madras in writing Madras Literary […]
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