Goa-CAP@Khoj, New Delhi

KHOJ & FICA
present

Art Talks @ The Reading Room

D-42 Defence Colony, New Delhi 110024
Friday, 15th October  2010
5:00 pm- 6:30 pm

Artists Presentations
'Shifting Focus': Photography Residency at KHOJ
In an era of fast paced ‘digital’ innovation with an ever increasing focus on technologically advanced equipment and high-end sophisticated gadgets, Shifting Focus, the Photography Residency at KHOJ, aspires to evoke the timeless ‘magic’ of photography and to extend its space to re-instill the intuition in making photographs.
In pursuit of alternative photographic processes, Shifting Focus seeks to investigate the vast potential of image-forming possibilities while demonstrating varied and often, untried means of making images. It promotes freedom to shift focus from using conventional methods and their intended purposes to that of discovery and exploration through practice of imagination and skill and thereby pushing the boundaries of photography.
By bringing forth photographers with diverse backgrounds and art practice as artists-in-residence during the month long duration, the residency attempts to create a bond of shared experiences through exciting exchange of ideas and technical skill, and endeavors to cultivate a broader, more inclusive perception of photography in the realm of art.  

Shifting Focusstrives to bring into focus that which escapes and eludes the ultimate ‘camera obscura’ – the human eye, as though opening a parallel universe to us; and restore the powerful and awe inspiring mystery of life!

Speakers
GOA CAP
P.Madhavan
Madhavan, a social photographer and alternative photography artist  educated in Paris and New York. As an Indian Foundation for Arts (IFA) fellow working and experimenting with the art of daguerreotype in India, P Madhavan’s social images are widely exhibited in the public spaces all over the world. Madhavan has taught photography to the under-privileged children in India and has a credit of conducting more than 300 successful workshops (In association with Plan International, Christian Children Fund, and DFID). Under the aegis of these workshops, around 2000 children and youth have been trained in social photography.
Edson Dias
Born in 1970 in Panjim, Goa, is a passionate fine art photographer greatly involved in black and white photography. Dias has been experimenting with pinhole and other silver based imagery for more than half a decade and has exhibited widely in Goa.
Mansi Bhatt
Mansi Bhatt was born in 1975 in Gujarat, India. She attained a BFA in Painting at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai. Recent exhibitions include Nynan Kismarra organized by Chatterjee & Lal at the Jehangir Nicholson Gallery, Mumbai, 2006 (solo), The Gallery at the Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, 2007, and 1st Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai, 2007. She lives in Mumbai.
Ajay Talwar
An amateur astronomer for two decades in India, Ajay Talwar is a prolific transient sky events astro-photographer. He has been instrumental in building one of the earliest Dobsonian telescope in India, India's largest telescope, photographing all the Messier Objects and exhibiting in a traveling exhibition, writing an observation planner and making the Astronomical Calender for 2010 amongst other activities.
Ajay travels with his telescope and photographic equipment all over ndia to dark locations, schooting pictures of the night sky.

Discussant

Georgina Maddox
Georgina Maddox blurs the lines of documentation, theory and praxis by operating as a critic/curator and involving herself in visual artist projects. Her writing has appeared in magazines like Art India, Art and Deal, Biblio and The Indian Contemporary Art Journal. She is currently working with The Indian Express as Senior Assistant Editor and has worked with the Times of India and Art India, the Art News Magazine.

Please note, the above program is subject to change.
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