What stories do family photographs tell beyond the frame? How do these everyday images, often overlooked in scholarly discourse, carry the weight of microhistories, affective memories, and vernacular cultures across India?
Join us for a conversation with Shilpi Goswami and Suryanandini Narain, editors of “Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India” — a volume that repositions family photographs as living archives that shape how we remember, represent, and relate to histories. They will be in conversation with Siddhi Bhandari, Faculty, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, as they reflect on how family photographs shape personal memory, social histories, and the politics of representation.
The speakers will explore personal archives to reflect on the layered nature of family photographs, and what they reveal about the nation and its many peoples.
The year-long curation of City Scripts will delve into the profound roots of our personal and public memories, histories and narratives through fiction, collections, archives, cultural practices and more.
Imagine the city as our collective garden. We nurture the seeds of our personal stories, carrying them with us and planting them in our neighbourhoods and backyards. There is always more to experience in a garden: entangled roots of our past, yellowing leaves falling with time, and the green tendrils of new ideas.
The year-long curation of City Scripts will delve into the profound roots of our personal and public memories, histories and narratives through fiction, collections, archives, cultural practices and more.
Imagine the city as our collective garden. We nurture the seeds of our personal stories, carrying them with us and planting them in our neighbourhoods and backyards. There is always more to experience in a garden: entangled roots of our past, yellowing leaves falling with time, and the green tendrils of new ideas.
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