We createdPhotoVogue Festival Echoesto allow those who participated in the event to contribute their voices to theFestival’s narrative.
Her photographs are never loud and conserve a quiet power through soft colours and a timeless, melancholic composition.
Dee and Yusuf, Waterfall.
Chromogenic Print, 2022.
Dee and Yusuf, Akhada.
Chromogenic Print, 2022.
Dee and Yusuf, Waterfall. Chromogenic Print, 2022.
What is your favourite memory of the PhotoVogue Festival 2023?
Dee and Yusuf, Mirror.
Chromogenic Print, 2022
Maneesha and Yusuf, Motorcycle.
Dee and Yusuf, Akhada. Chromogenic Print, 2022.
Chromogenic Print, 2022.
What is the relationship between your practice and colours?
How do you see colours in relation to your work?
Dee and Yusuf, Mirror.Chromogenic Print, 2022
Thank you for seeing that!
But there are certain notions I avoid at all costs because I feel that they perpetuate a neo-colonialist view.
Maneesha in my hands.Paint on Chromogenic Print, 2022.
Maneesha and Yusuf, Motorcycle. Chromogenic Print, 2022.
Risha, Elevator.Paint on Chromogenic Print, 2022.
Your project can be seen as a reenactment of archival material.
Right now, what is the role of photographic archives?
Maneesha in my hands.Paint on Chromogenic Print, 2022.
Well, some say art and history are alike - in that they repeat themselves.
The question is can we recreate this same feeling today?
Only the affluent had the privilege of their likenesses being painted or photographed multiple times.
Risha, Elevator.Paint on Chromogenic Print, 2022.
But in comparison to todays society - this sounds to me like freedom!
Is there an upcoming project you are working on?
Im very excited to share a new series and film in September at the Images Vevey Biennale in September.
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