A major survey exhibit of photographs from Asia

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich in Switzerland hosts a traveling exhibition of first major survey of historic & contemporary photographic works from the subcontinent. It is a landmark exhibition that looks to explore twin currents of culture and modernity through over 300 works by 70 Artists.

The fast nature of political upheavals and evolution of technology juxtaposed with the slow time warp of culture, ritual and family of the region are ably captured through the powerful lens of more than 75 artists from the above countries. Their thought provoking work demonstrates a wide range of formal experimentation coupled with bold aesthetic lines of enquiry indigenous, albeit of universal interest. A curatorial note elaborates:

“Histories of photography, as presented through books or exhibitions in the twentieth century, have been dominated by Europe and the US. The exhibition ‘Where Three Dreams Cross – 150 Years of Photography from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh’ and the publication accompanying it articulate the untold story of an equally significant history, as rich and as formally innovative, yet embedded in the culture and politics of South Asia.

"It does not reiterate a western view of the east, but celebrates how successive generations of photographers from the subcontinent have portrayed themselves and their eras. ‘Where Three Dreams Cross’ spans the transition of the South Asian peninsula – once defined as ‘the immense rhomboid’ bordered by the Himalayas in the north and the ocean to the south – from a heterogeneous yet single entity defined by the Indus river to its subdivision into three nations: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh."

The curators of the noteworthy show Shahidul Alam founder and Director of Drik Archive and Pathshala, Dhaka, Bangladesh; writer, photographer and curator Sunil Gupta; the founder of Fotomedia, New Delhi’s first photo library, Radhika Singh; the co-founder of not-for-profit arts organization Green Cardamom in London, Hammad Nasar and Kirsty Ogg from the Whitechapel Gallery.