Dayanita Singh

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Dayanita Singh, 2014

Dayanita Singh (* 1961 in New Delhi , India ) is an Indian photographer .

Life

Singh studied visual communication at the National Institute for Design in Ahmedabad in the state of Gujarat from 1980 to 1986 and then went to the International Center of Photography in Manhattan in New York City to study documentary photography and photojournalism for two years .

Singh started out as a photojournalist for international magazines and newspapers such as the New York Times and London's The Times in the 1980s . Much of her work was black and white photographs and dealt with her homeland and portrayed the Indian middle and upper class. Other photo series were taken in places like Goa without showing people. In 1986 she published a photo book in New Delhi about the Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain .

In 2001 the Scalo Verlag in Zurich published Singh's book Myself Mona Ahmed about a representative of the third sex , a hijra , who she observed and photographed for a period of 13 years. The text was written by Mona herself in e-mails sent to Switzerland.

Singh lives and works in both New Delhi and Goa.

honors and awards

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 1997: Images from the 90s , Scalo Galerie, Zurich
  • 1998: Family Portraits , Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi
  • 2000: Demello Vado , Saligao Institute, Goa
  • 2001: Empty Spaces , Frith Street Gallery, London
  • 2002: I am as I am. Myself Mona Ahmed , Scalo Galerie, Zurich
  • 2003: Dayanita Singh: Privacy , Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin
  • 2006: Go Away Closer . Gallery Nature Morte, New Delhi
  • 2007: Go Away Closer , Kriti Gallery, Banaras
  • 2010: Dayanita Singh - Photographs 1989 - 2010 , Huis Marseille , Amsterdam
  • 2012: Dayanita Singh: File Room , Frith Street Gallery, London
  • 2012: Dayanita Singh. The Adventure of a Photographer , Umeå Bildmuseet , Umeå , Sweden.
  • 2014: Dayanita Singh. , The Art Institute of Chicago .
  • 2014: Building the Book Museum: Photography, Language, Form , New Delhi National Museum , New Delhi, India.
  • 2014: Dayanita Singh. Go Away Closer . Museum of Modern Art 3 , Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2014: Dayanita Singh: A Book Story . Goethe Institute , Mumbai.
  • 2015: Dayanita Singh: Museum of Chance , Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi.
Group exhibitions

Publications

  • 1986: Zakir Hussain. Himalayan Books, New Delhi.
  • 2001: Myself Mona Ahmed . Scalo Verlag, Zurich / New York City.
  • 2003: Privacy . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 3-88243-962-9 .
  • 2005: Chairs . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen.
  • 2007: Go Away Closer . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen.
  • 2008: The Home and the World , Steidl, Göttingen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-683-0 . Exhibition catalog.
  • 2010: Dream Villa . Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-86521-985-5 .
  • 2013: File Room. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, ISBN 978-3-86930-542-4 .
  • 2014: Museum of Chance ; Text Aveek Sen, Steidl, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8693-0693-3 .

Web links

Commons : Dayanita Singh  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Requiem on a pile of paper. In: FAZ . January 5, 2013, p. 37.
  2. ^ Museum page on the exhibition , accessed on April 27, 2014
  3. ^ Machines, furniture and hugs in FAZ of September 27, 2014, page 38
  4. ↑ No photo shows only the reality in FAZ from October 16, 2014, page R6
personal data
SURNAME Singh, Dayanita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH New Delhi , India