Delhi: Looking Out/Looking In: Aperture 243

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This summer, Aperture presents a special issue focused on the relationship between photography, urbanism, and activist trajectories from Delhi. Guest edited by Rahaab Allana, the Alkazi Foundation's lead curator, the issue explores multiple incarnations of the citys photographic culture, from O. P. Sharmas experimental works from the 1960s to Aditi Jains intimate tableaux of Delhis trans community today. Interviews with revered writer Arundhati Roy and with Bangladeshs best-known photojournalist, Shahidul Alam, illuminate sites of protest in the city and throughout South Asia. Skye Arundhati Thomas revisits Sheba Chhachhis feminist staged portraits from the 1980s and 90s. Featuring a cross section of dynamic image-makers and thinkers, such as Jyoti Dhar, Sunil Gupta, Ishan Tankha, and Anshika Varma, and emerging voices Uzma Mohsin and Prarthna Singh, the issue is a distinctive meditation on regionalism, politics, and identity, through archival and contemporary photographic viewpoints.

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Rahaab Allana is the curator of the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi, and the guest editor of Apertures Delhi: Looking Out/Looking In issue.