"Surge - Pix : Pakistan" a photography exhibition at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 14th to 27th March 2015

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14th March : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 14-03-2015 18:30:00 14-03-2015 20:00:00 68 "Surge - Pix : Pakistan" a photography exhibition Event Page : http://goo.gl/HgQ0Jc Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY - Opening
16th to 27th March - 10:00 am to 6:00 pm (closed on national holidays and Sundays) Add to Calendar 16-03-2015 10:00:00 27-03-2015 18:00:00 68 "Surge - Pix : Pakistan" a photography exhibition Event Page : http://goo.gl/HgQ0Jc Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY  - Exhibition on View

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Venue : Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001

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Event Description : "Surge - Pix : Pakistan" a photography exhibition Presented by Amber Hammad and Insiya Syed, two of the photographers participating in the exhibition.

Featured photographers in the issue include François Daireaux, Amber Hammad, Asad Hayee, Malcolm Hutcheson, Mariam Ibraaz, Tooraj Khamenehzadeh, Naiza Khan, Sana Khan, Edwin Koo, 
Arif Mahmood, Asef Ali Mohammad, Aun Raza, Saptarshi Sanyal and Marylise Vigneau. With featured texts by Tehmina Ahmed,  Aasim Akhtar, Saira Ansari,  Naazish Ata-Ullah, Zahid R.Chaudhary, Salima Hashmi, Saskya Jain, Durriya Kazi, Quddus Mirza, Hammad Nasar, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Insiya Syed and Ilona Yusuf.
Surge explores the evolving relationship between art-practice and documentary tropes as they are taking shape in Pakistan. With a general emphasis on the notion of a surge-a sudden and powerful 
development in identity and location-specific imagery, the issue speculates on renewed understanding of the future of photo-practice within a country that has witnessed a swiftly evolving 'state', leading to a range of activity around personal expression and social awareness. An emphasis on personal space and gender relations as well as a consideration of private archives and a shifting gaze are also insinuated by the thematic, and these may be explored through portraiture, landscapes, advertising, fashion, street photography, photo-journalism and conceptual forms to mention a few prevalent approaches.
Consequently, while making a preliminary foray into the issue, some of the broader predicaments that came to mind were: what constitutes the physical geography of photography today? How are images from Pakistan embedded in different social, cultural, and historical conditions? And what does the experience reveal about the global condition of photography, and how does that (if at all) change ones experience of 'place'?

The PIX team : Rahaab Allana | Nandita Jaishankar | Tanvi Mishra | Philippe Calia | Akshay Mahajan | Arati Devasher

For further information, please visit: www.pixquarterly.in

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