A new series of works by Dayanita Singh

The passionate photographer acts as the story teller who does not allow a viewer to get too comfortable in what they’re seeing.

Dayanita Singh has attained international fame as an accomplished photographer. Exploring the varied possibilities and inherent limitations of color film seen in the traditional sense, without the assistance of computer manipulations or digital photography, she produced the series ‘Blue Book’.

She showcases her first color images that are set in an industrial landscape. Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke presents a new set of photographic works by the renowned New Delhi based artist photographer. This is her second solo with the gallery.

Born in New Delhi in 1961, Dayanita Singh studied at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and focused on documentary photography and photojournalism at New York’s International Center of Photography. Her largest single body of color work is ‘Dream Villa,’ in which she explores the mysteriousness of ordinary spaces that are obscured in darkness.

It’s one project mostly devoid of human presence from an artist who is associated with black and white portraits of India’s urban well-to-do families. The vacant, quiet, anonymous spaces in the series let the drama of light and shadow acquire centre stage. On the other hand, ‘Blue Book’ comprises images of industrial landscapes mostly shot across the country.

Dayanita Singh explores the color as found all through the day, examining the possibilities of color film in the traditional sense, as mentioned above.