Wednesday, December 9, 12-1 PM EST
In her new book, Unseeing Empire: Photography, Representation, South Asian America, Professor Bakirathi Mani (English Literature at Swarthmore College) investigates how images of empire haunt contemporary Asian American visual cultures.
In this lecture Bakirathi Mani is joined by artist Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Contemporary Curator Jodi Throckmorton for a discussion on Matthew’s series, An Indian From India in relation to Edward S. Curtis's photographs of Indigenous peoples and Mani’s recent publication.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia
Read moreDecember 3 - 5, 2020
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew and Qiana Mestrich will be a part of The Center for Photography Woodstock’s 2020 virtual Symposium on Race, Activism and Photography. The Keynote Address will be by artist Carrie Mae Weems.
“Race, Activism and Photography will address an array of issues including the history of photography through the prism of race, representation and identity, and activism, and examines how these topics have evolved from 1839 to the present; the economic and social impact of systemic racism, and how these inequities have been represented in the media; how artists, within the context of fine art, are using their work to address oppression and discrimination; and, finally, how artists are responding to the challenging and unique opportunities that lie ahead in the art world.”
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Center for Photography at Woodstock
Read moreNovember 30 & December 1, 2020
Premiering online Monday, November 30, 6pm EST and available to stream starting December 1, World AIDS Day, Transmission Day will feature six short videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States.
Featuring videos by Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Las Indetectables (Chile), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK).
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Visual AIDS
New York
Read moreNovember 18, 2020 6-7PM (EST)
Join Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Asma Naeem (Chief Curator, Baltimore Museum of Art), and Carol Huh (Curator of Contemporary Art, Freer Sackler, Smithsonian) in a conversation about her series, THE UNREMEMBERED: Indian Soldiers from the Italian Campaign of World War II. The UNREMEMBERED is a photo, video, and multi-media project on the Indian soldiers who fought for the British in World War II.
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National Museum of Asian Art
Smithsonian, Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Washington, DC
Read moreNovember 7, 2020 9:30AM-1:00PM (AEST)
Karia’s Population Crisis series set in Bombay will be highlighted in the conference: “The Emotional lives of Cities: Pandemic, Protest, and Urban Life.” Featuring speakers from Monash University, The University of Queensland, and the University of Sydney, this public forum and development seminar will re-examine how we inhabit cities and how societal and climate crises will effect our future.
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The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions
Kedron Room, Brisbane City Hall
Read moreNovember 4, 2020
SepiaEYE Director, Esa Epstein, is a contributor to a forthcoming book from Editions Textuel, Paris. She is writing on the work of Pamela Singh, in a book entitled, World History of Women in Photography which is slated for release this year.
Editions Textuel
13, quai de Conti
75006 Paris
France
Read moreOctober 28, 2020 4-6 PM EST
Qiana Mestrich will be taking part in a Virtual Seminar, one part of the eight part series hosted by NYU Washington DC. Women and Migration(s) explores the importance of the arts and public policy in the migrations of women displaced by climate crisis, economic fluctuations, domestic violence, the pandemic, and other factors.
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Redefining Resistance: "Joy" as Resistance Part II Virtual Webinar (via Zoom)
NYU Washington, DC
Read moreOctober 27, 2020 at 6-7 PM
The 2020/21 speaker series by the Photographic Resource Center features four photographers working in a range of styles ranging from documentary photography to installation. Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will be doing a Zoom/online lecture on her photo-based installation work drawing on archival photographs as a source of inspiration to re-examine neglected historical narratives.
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Photographic Resource Center
Cambridge
Read moreOctober 22, 2020 at 12:10PM (EST)
Atul Bhalla is Cornell University's South Asia Program's Virtual Artist-in-Residence. His Artist Talk, "You Always Step into the Same River," will focus on his preoccupation with all aspects of water-- accessibility, sustainability, it's political, religious, and historical entanglements etc.-- in the urban environment of Delhi, India.
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Cornell University, South Asia Program
Read moreAutumn 2020
Qiana Mestrich has contributed an essay to Nueva Luz volume 24:2, which is presented as an exhibition catalog for Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives. Her essay is titled, “Dos Mundos: A Photographic Frame Switching Between Cultures.” Dos Mundos was curated by Stephenie Lindquist and Juanita Lanzo, responds to contemporary circumstances and inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.
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NUEVA LUZ volume 24:2
Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives
Read moreQiana Mestrich wrote an essay on the British photographer Cian Oba-Smith's documentary photography series on the impact of systemic and economic racism on the historically Black community of Syracuse, New York. Check out Oba-Smith's work and Mestrich's essay at the link below.
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Light Work Collection: Cian Oba-Smith
Read moreOctober 16, 2020 at 7:30PM IST / 10AM EST
Collector/scholar Omar Khan & sepiaEYE Director, Esa Epstein discuss Khan’s latest collection and book, Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj (Mapin/Alkazi Collection of Photography, 2018) in collaboration with Chennai Photo Biennale & 10x10 Photo Books. The recorded talk may be accessed below.
Chennai Photo Biennale (Link to Event)
Read moreSeptember 18, 2020 – January 10, 2021
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Portfolio 2 of An Indian from India will be on view in its entirety in “version 2.0” of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Women Breaking Boundaries exhibition. The exhibition explores the role of women in art and art history through works from the permanent collection created by artists from the seventeenth century to today.
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Cinncinati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
USA
Read moreSeptember 2020
The first publication by femalephotographers.org, a new collective of which Qiana Mestrich is a part, is A Visual Conversation about Bodies, "The Body Issue," published by Hatje Cantz. The book addresses the depiction of bodies and the perception of them. Edited by Elisabeth Biondi with text by Emma Lewis.
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Female Photographers Org
The Body Issue
Read moreSeptember 2, 2020
The PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series has moved online. sepiaEYE Director, Esa Epstein, gave a talk on September 2nd which is available to stream on the sepiaEYE Vimeo page
Esa Epstein | PGH Photo Fair Speaker Series
PGH Photo Fair
Carnegie Museum of Art: Hall of Sculpture
Pittsburgh, USA
Read moreAugust 28, 2020 at 6:30–7:15 PM
Beatrice Pediconi, whose video works Alien (2016) and Untitled 2015 are projected onto Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Library's facade as part of the summer Cinema Ephemera program, will be part of a online video discussion.
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Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library
Read moreRelease Date TBA
In the finishing changes of production, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva. Dr. Shiva is a prominent face of the food justice movement, taking on Monsanto and industrial agriculture. Pamela Singh’s documentary photography on the original eco-warriors, the treehuggers of Chipko is featured in the film. To view more works in this series, please click here.
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The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
Read moreOnline Auction:
August 8, 9 AM – August 29, 9 PM
Two works from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s An Indian from India series will be up for in this benefit auction to support art, artists, and the Museum.
Newport Art Museum
76 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, Rhode Island
USA
Read moreJuly 16, 2020 - March 2021
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew’s Daughters from her An Indian from India series is on view in the George Eastman Museum’s exhibition, History of Photography.
“This selection of photographs commemorates the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified on August 18, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment granted American women the right to vote (though many women continued to be prevented from exercising that right). This installation examines how photography has portrayed, and fundamentally shaped, perceptions of women and feminist movements since the mid-1800s.”
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George Eastman Museum
Rochester, NY
Read moreMay - October 2020
Art Gallery of Ontario will be exhibiting works by Bhupendra Karia (1936-1994) in a look at the global documentary photography from the 1960s and 1970s, timed to open with the annual CONTACT photography festival.
Art Gallery of Ontario
317 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON Canada
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