DETAILS:
Date: 29 December 2024 | Sunday
Time: 4:30pm onwards

Talk by Naeem Mohaiemen followed by a conversation between Naeem Mohaiemen and Sanchayan Ghosh

Initially, social reality photography in the the subcontinent was controlled by Western photographers who, after brief visits, captured images of poverty, refugees, and factories, creating stereotypes about the subcontinent. However with local photographers taking charge of representing their own social realities a significant shift occurred.  Organizations like Tropical, Drik, and Map, along with influential photographers such as Shahidul Alam and Selim Pal, empowered the local community to capture their own stories.

Author Bio:

Naeem Mohaiemen researches the unresolved liberation struggles of the 1960s and 1970s and the conflict between memory and history. He is the author of “Midnight’s Third Child” (2023) and “Prisoners of Correct History” (2014) and edited collections of essays “Solidarity Must Be Defended” (2023, with Eszter Szakacs) and “Chittagong Hill Tracts in the Blind Alley of Bangladesh Nationalism” (2010).

Sanchayan Ghosh is an Associate Professor (Department of Painting) Kala Bhavana,Visva Bharati University, SantIniketan. Over the years, Sanchayan has been interested in site-specific art towards a direct engagement with public spaces. With his early inspirations from community ritual events in Santiniketan and his workshop experience with Third theatre exponent Badal Sarkar he involves community based art activity where he tries to engage in specific community situations through workshops, which then gets transformed into an interactive/participatory activity.

Join us for this insightful talk and conversation at Arthshila Santiniketan.