PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION "Click! Contemporary Photography in India" at Vadehra Art Gallery, Okhla - 1st to 31st March 08

• Time : 11:00 am - 7:00 pm ( sundays closed ), Opening on 1st March 2008
  

• Event Details : Vadehra Art Gallery is very excited to announce its first foray into photography, which in collaboration with Fotomedia, is an ambitious exhibition titled Click! Contemporary Photography in India.
• The exhibition includes more than a hundred images from a huge range of photographers.
  
• In his 1980 classic Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes writes: “Life/Death: the paradigm is reduced to a simple click, the one separating the initial pose from the final print”.
• His celebrated book examines the relevance of photography to our times. It’s immense popularity, it’s machine-made photo mechanical reproductive qualities, the way in which it blurs the boundaries between all different uses of the medium. Most significantly how it is replacing memory itself with an image, an image that is impermanent and that will fade with time. It has provided us the title for an exhibition that explores the Indian condition through photography.
• The show looks at what strategies have been employed by Indian photographers from different generations and what themes hold their interest. From Pablo Bartholomew’s image of the Shit Seller to, Nizamuddin at night, from the series ‘Urban Landscapes’ by Gauri Gill depicting India’s barren wasteland the birth place of a new urban sprawl, we see the emergence of a younger generation with its own readings and concerns. What needs to be recorded? What needs to be preserved for our personal and collective memory? Photography has come to replace the great oral traditions of society. Family histories, social change, detailed human recollections have been supplanted by the photograph, an impermanent medium, even more so in the digital age.
• The exhibition will include both single works and groups of photographs. Each work is pivotal in the story of Indian photography. Some represent a dramatic rupture with the past proposing radical new forms. Others picture modern life or its impact on our inner selves. Others still propose to take modern life and revolutionize it.
• Underlying the whole is the relationship between the individual and society, experience and memory, life and death.

• Curated by : Sunil Gupta and Radhika Singh

• List Of Photographers In The Show :
• Amit Mehra, Aradhana Seth, Amit Pasricha, Anand Shinde, Ananda Banerjee, Anita Dube, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Apoorva Guptay, Arindam Mukherjee, Ashim Ghosh, Ashima Narain, Ashok Nath Dey, Asis Sanyal, Atul Kasbekar, Baptist Coelho, Bharat Sikka, Bijoy Chowdhury, Binu Bhaskar, Chirodeep Chaudhri, Clare Arni, Dhruv Singh, Dinesh Khanna, Diwan Manna, Farhad Bomanjee, Fawzan Husain, Gauri Gill, Gigi Scaria, Harinder Rajpal, Homai Vyarawalla, Ipshita Barua, Ishan Tankha, Jayanta Saha, Joseph M. Daniel, K. Venkatesh, Kanishka Ingle, Kushal Ray, Leena Kejriwal, Mahesh Bhat, Mahesh Shantaram, Malkiat Singh, Manoj Kumar Jain, Nandini Valli, Naveen Kishore, Nitin Sonawane, Nitin Upadhye, Pablo Bartholomew, Pamela Singh, Prabuddha Das Gupta, Pradeep Dalal, Prashant Panjiar, Preeti Sood, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Raghu Rai, Ravi Agarwal, Rajib De, Rajiv Kumar, Ram Rahman, Rishi Singhal, S. Paul, Saadiya Kochar, Saibal Das, Samit Das, Sandeep Biswas, Sandesh Bhandare, Sanjeev Saith, Sanjit Das, Sanjit Singh, Santosh Santosh, Shahid Datawala, Shalini Saran, Sharvini Patel, Sheba Chhachhi, Shilpa Gupta, Sohrab Hura,Sondeep Shankar, Sonia Khurana, Sumit Basu, Swapan Nayak, Tarun Chhabra, Tarunn, Tejal Shah, Uzma Mohsin, Vicky Roy, Vidur Jung Bahadur, Vikas Malhotra, Vivan Sundaram, Zui Patravali

• Place : Vadehra Art Gallery, D-178, Okhla induatrial Area, Phase – 1, New Delhi - 20
• Website : www.vadehraart.com

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