Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India pandemic researcher and curator with a

researcher and curator with a PhD in Cultural Studies

I don’t find superficial emotions emanating through his lens from either the subjects or from the photographer

Bharat Sikka’s ‘The Sapper’ is as multi-layered as the relationship that it narrates between a father and an adult son

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Naeem Mohaiemen returns to the photographs his father took in the 1950s

Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India pandemic researcher and curator with aShilpi Goswami, Suryanandini Narain, (eds.) Long neglected in academic discourse in India, family photographs make a silent contribution to the histories of photography, marginality and the family. In this volume, the writers dwell on the importance of family photographs and their visual omnipresence in our daily lives. They point out how family photographs have belonged to the vernacular material of visual culture, more seen and lived with, less