MUMBAI:
THE CITY THAT
TALKS TO ME
Exhibition of the works of RITAM BANNERJEE
17-24 May
Workers Musem
Ritam Bannerjee is a renowned photographer who shall exhibit a collection of his works that celebrates the life in Mumbai, using Bollywood, Cricket and images from 26/11 entitled ‘Mumbai: The City That Talks To Me.’ The exhibition of photographs will be accompanied by a video montage of Bollywood in MUMBAI through 100 Years of Cinema.
The collection also has images of the tragic moments that the city of Mumbai faced during the 26/11 siege in 2008 – “On November 26, I was roaming the city, visiting and revisiting the sites of the attacks. I saw the dome light up. I heard the endless rounds of gun shots and met the living corpses in the hospitals,” says photographer Ritam Banerjee, who was on a 60-hour shift clicking snaps for Getty Images many of which were published in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Ritam ’s photo collection will focus more on the enigma that Mumbai is and the celebratory life that defines the pulse of the city.
The exhibition of photographs will be accompanied by a video montage of MUMBAI in Bollywood through 100 Years of Cinema.
INDIAN
MEMORY
PROJECT
An interactive session
with ANUSHA YADAV
15 May
1100-1300 hrs
The Nunnery
University of Witswatersrand
Exhibiton
17-24 May
Workers Musem
Anusha Yadav founded the Indian Memory Project in February 2010. The project is an online, curated, visual and oral-history based archive that traces the lives of the Indian people focusing on their cultures, traditions, circumstances and their consequences. The result of which is a reconstruction of a visual history from family archives. Anusha as part of the INDIAFRICA FESTIVAL will curate a selection of the project.
INDIAFRICA
PHOTOGRAPHY
EXHIBITION
Exhibition of Winning
Photographs from
Africa and India
17-19 May
0930 hrs onwards
Faculty of Art, Design
& Architecture (FADA),
University of Johannesburg
The winning entries from the first and second editions of the INDIAFRICA Photography Contests will be displayed at the Keleketla Media Arts in the inner city for two weeks.
This exhibition will then form part of a traveling exhibition and will go across a few other campuses in Africa during the third edition of the INDIAFRICA Contests scheduled to start from June 2013.
The INDIAFRICA Photography Exhibition will be open to the public while the INDIAFRICA Film Festival is on at the same venue.Invitations will be sent out to various schools and universities to invite the photography enthusiasts to witness the diversity of India and Africa through pictures.
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