Indian photographers at a show in Paris- II

A show in Paris at Gallery Duboys features 10 talented contemporary photographers from India. Here is a quick introduction to some of the participating artists:

Pradeep Dalal is an artist and writer. His work was recently included in exhibits at Higher Pictures in New York, the Herter Art Gallery in Amherst and at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art in Newark. He has also exhibited at the New York Public Library, Orchard, and ps122 Gallery, and at TART in San Francisco and the Vadhera Gallery in New Delhi. Dalal’s reviews and interviews have been published in ARTWURL, Teaching Photo, Village Voice, and EGO Magazine.

He is a recipient of the Tierney Fellowship, and has an MFA from ICP/Bard College and an MArch from MIT. He works at the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program, and is on the faculty at the International Center of Photography in New York.

Born in 1966, Swapan Parekh Studied photojournalism and documentary photography at the international Centre of Photography, New York. Parekh’s work has been published in Time, Life, People, American Photo, The London Independent, Der Spiegel, El Pais, among others. He has been on the jury of the World Press Photo Awards thrice in Amsterdam. His first solo exhibition of photographs, Between Me & I was shown at Photoink in Delhi, Chattejee & Lal in Mumbai and at the Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam.

His work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions like Photographers in Asia: India: Tokyo (2007); Overseas, gallery Ske, Bangalore (2007); Really True! Photography and the promise of reality, Ruhrlandmuseum, Germany (2004); Century City, Tate Gallery, London (2001); Inferno Paradiso, Umea Museum, Sweden, (1999); Under/Exposed, Stocklom Underground; Xposeptember, Stockholm Fotofestival, (1998); India: A Celebration of Independence- 1947 to 1997, Aperture Foundation, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Royal Festival Hall (London), Chicago Cultural Centre.