"City Eyes" an exhibition of photographs by Sameer Tawde at Open Palm Court Gallery, IHC, Lodhi Road > 19th-23rd September 2011

Time : 
19th September : 6:00 pm - Opening
19th to 23rd September : 10:00 am - 8:00 pm - Exhibition on View

Entry : Free

Place : Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre ( IHC ), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003
Parking : Gate No. 1 to 3 ( Cars ), Gate No. 2 ( Bikes & Bicycles )

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Event Details : 'City Eyes' an exhibition of photographs by Sameer Tawde. Winner of India Habitat Centre Fellowship for Photography in 2008.

Sameer’s show is a collection of 22 photographs which are part of an ongoing exploration of Bombay / Mumbai. Started in June 2008, the project evolved into a fellowship for photography at the India Habitat Centre, in November 2008. It constitutes images created over a period of 2 years till around mid 2010.

Sameer’s work involves extensive research and persistent revisiting of his subject. Though he has been working around some preconceived notions of the city his photographs display an effortless humour and effective use of color. The odd juxtapositions of imagery, often compelling and a little mysterious, demonstrate an insightful eye. The concurrence of impersonal, people-less photos on the one hand and some which show people and their absence – is a silent, almost meditative, appraisal of the city.

 

- Abeer Gupta, Anthropologist and documentary film-maker.

In this series City Eyes, Sameer Tawde gives an everyday gaze at ever metamorphosing Mumbai. Taking various perspectives about the city, Tawde takes us a journey of unexpected places throughout the city juxtaposed in sets of opposing concepts, such as the central and the peripheral, the private and the public, the visible and the invisible, and the real and the imaginary.

As a result, his photographs suggests new ways for us to look at the city as well as giving us chances to relfect its past and future.

- Yasufumi Nakamori, Curator, 2nd Singapore International Photography Festival, 2010.

Assistant Curator, Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Biography

Sameer Tawde was born and raised in Mumbai. He studied architecture and later, communication design at the National Institute of Design. Since graduating from NID he has been working as a freelance art and documentary photographer.

His images embedded within a photojournalistic approach cross-over into fine art photography with its unique take on the subject and point of view.

He currently lives and works in Mumbai.

Website : www.sameertawde.com

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