"Her first image, her mother's influence, her shift to colour and her kitchen museum…Photographer Dayanita Singh talks about all that to MANJULA NARAYAN
At first, you are exasperated. Internationally known photographer Dayanita Singh (48) refuses to meet. She insists on doing an email interview. But once you send those questions, Singh responds with detailed answers and reveals that the questionnaire or are you a witch?" she asks when you finally meet her at Nature Morte Gallery in New Delhi, where her latest work, Blue Book, that marks a departure from her usual black and white"…
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Delhi-based photographer Dayanita Singh has an unusual approach to displaying her work. Her previous project Sent a Letter, had her images bound into pull-out books that one could unfurl, which were then given to friends and family to distribute. Her recent photographs, collected in the Blue Book project - of Inidia's industrial spaces and factory interiours - are being put together as postcards that you can tear out of the book and actually pop in the mail,thus retaining the idea of "gifting" and passing the work on.
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With "Blue Book", Indian viewers get to see Dayanita Singh's photographs in colour for the first time . Known for her evocative black and white frames, this well known Delhi-based photographer's work has won praise and awards from London to New York. She works with Frith Street Gallery, London, and publishes only with the prestigious Steidl. Recently, she was awarded the Prince Claus Award for 2008 by the Government of The Netherlands, for "introducing a new aesthetic into Indian photography
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"Internationally renowned photographer Dayanita Singh was recently honoured with the prestigious Prince Claus award by the government of The Netherlands for exploring and highlighting overlooked facets of "contemporary Indian reality". Over the years, Singh, 47, has turned her lens on unconventional subjects such as the upwardly mobile inside their comfortable homes, her eunuch friend and the women inmates of an ashram"…...
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"Blue Book, Dayanita Singh's new body of work, is actually a double entendre. It's both a series of photographs, hung on the walls of Nature Morte in India, and a slick book of postcards, produced by Steidi publishers in Germany. The thing is, Dayanita intended it to be that way. It is her intervention in the art market. The book ensures you can own the images, if not as the expensive prints, then as high quality postcards. Photography is a medium that allows for this latitude, and Dayanita stretches it out to the fullest"…
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