in cooperation with CPB Foundation
10:00 am - 10:45 am
I Love MGR with
Cop Shiva
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Cop Shiva is an artist/photographer and earns his name from his earlier occupation in the Police department. Shiva documents the complexity of rural and urban India, focusing on people and portraiture as a genre. He is fascinated with the idea of masquerade and the roles people play in public and private. His works includes portraits of urban migrants, people of alternative sexuality, street performers etc. living in the hinterland of urban and rural conflict; a representation of a diversity and spirit of our times.
© Chennai Photo Biennale
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Horror in Pink with
Manit Sriwanichpoom
Manit Sriwanichpoom (b 1961) is one of Thailand’s leading photographers, and the best known in the international art world, having exhibited worldwide including in the Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2010), The Asia Pacific Triennial (Australia, 2009), Photoquai (Paris, 2007), Gwangju Biennale (Korea, 2006) and the Venice Biennale (2003). His works are collected by important museums including in the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (Paris), the DZ Bank (Germany), the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), the National Gallery of Australia, the NGS (Singapore) and well known private collectors. In 2007 he was awarded the Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Prize from Japan and 2014 the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by French Ministry of Culture.
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12:00 pm - 12:45 pm
Artist Talk with
Yumi Goto
Yumi Goto is an independent photography curator, editor, researcher, consultant, educator and publisher who focuses on the development of cultural exchanges that transcend borders. She collaborates with local and international artists who live and work in areas affected by conflict, natural disasters, current social problems, human rights abuses and women’s issues. She often works with human rights advocates, international and local NGOs, humanitarian organizations and as well as being involved as a nominator and juror for the international photographic organizations, festivals and events.
© Photolux Festival
2:30 pm - 03:15 pm
Artist Talk with
Dimitri Beck
Dimitri Beck is the director of photography the Paris-based photojournalism magazine and gallery, Polka. He has been instrumental in setting up new ventures and has created many new projects in order to bring photojournalism to the foreground of the world’s arena.
© Chennai Photo Biennale_Anna fox
3:30 pm - 04:15 pm
Country Girls with
Anna Fox
Anna Fox (b.1961) is one of the most acclaimed British photographers of the last thirty years and is Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts where she currently holds a Leverhulme International Networks Grant for the project Fast Forward Women in Photography. Fox’s solo shows have been seen at Photographer’s Gallery, London, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago amongst others and her work has been included in international group shows including Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant Garde at Tate Liverpool and How We Are: Photographing Britain at Tate.
© Chennai Photo Biennale_Nandini Valli
4:30 pm - 05:30 pm
Chinar Shah in conversation with
Nandini Valli Muthiah
Nandini Valli lives and works in Chennai and has been a photo artist since 2005. She worked with one of Chennai's leading commercial photographer, G. Venket Ram before she studied photography at the University of Arts, Bournemouth, England. Colour is very centric to the work that the artist produces. Her inspiration comes from the mundane and daily rituals of the life of those she sees around her. She is represented by Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai.
Chinar Shah is a Bangalore based artists. She is the co-editor of Photography in India: From Archives to Contemporary Practice, Bloomsbury, UK, 2018. She runs an apartment gallery called Home Sweet Home. She has shown her work extensively.
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