Photography Residency Nov-Dec 2005

In the previous century, photography helped shape art; in the current one, it has begun to dominate it. Not only are major international museums and galleries mounting blockbuster exhibitions, but art photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters. Both India and South Asia have strong traditions of documentary/reportage photography, and more and more visual artists are now choosing to work exclusively with this medium, while others have a more interdisciplinary approach.

The KHOJ PHOTOGRAPHY RESIDENCY sough to interrogate the "digital-ness" of photography as a medium and all that implies -- interaction and collaboration, manipulation and realism, and authenticity and authority by bringing together photographers / artists from the various sub genres of the medium such as documentary / reportage / portraiture / landscape / journalism / art photography etc.