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Chinese Language Table at Kline Commons.
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Current Events
Upcoming Events
- 10/04Tuesday5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Olin, Room 102Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Sanjay Kak, The Archive of Now: Photography in Kashmir, 1986–2016
A Human Rights Project Event
Olin, Room 102 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Photography in Kashmir has emerged as a powerful witness to its troubled present. A new generation of photographers, rooted in photojournalism but escaping its limits when they can, have illuminated Kashmiri life in a period of upheaval. Over the last three decades their work has demonstrated the radical part that can be played by photographs in subverting established views of Kashmir—as a beautiful landscape without its people; as an innocent paradise; and more recently, of a paradise beset by mindless violence.
Witness brings together images by nine photographers from Kashmir, the oldest already a working professional in 1986, and the youngest not yet twenty in 2016. The images are by Meraj Uddin, Javeed Shah, Dar Yasin, Javed Dar, Altaf Qadri, Sumit Dayal, Showkat Nanda, Syed Shahriyar, and Azaan Shah.
The text emerged from conversations with documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak, and brings out the varied relationships that each contributor has to photography and to Kashmir, in the process raising questions about the place of artistic practice in zones of conflict. - 10/06Thursday6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4 Kline, Faculty Dining Room
- 10/11Tuesday1:30 pm – 2:30 pm EDT/GMT-4 Kline Commons