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Author Archives: Brij
Uncle, please take a photo of me…
This morning I was looking at my archive of India images and I realised that every time I go on a shoot to India, be it a personal project or a magazine commission, I end up with a lot of … Continue reading
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Tagged Brijesh Patel, corbett village, India, north india, photograph, Portrait, rural portraits, village children
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“The first light-picture ever taken. 1839”
“The first light-picture ever taken. 1839” Robert Cornelius wrote this short but evocative inscription on the back of his own self-portrait. This self-portrait is the first photographic image of human ever produced. The quarter plate daguerreotype was taken at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Collecting Photography, History of photography, photograph, Portrait
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Exploring binding techniques in my artist’s books
As a fine art photographer making work on India, artists’ books add an additional dimension to my work and are as critical to me as fine art prints, but with the added advantage that they are tactile objects that the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Salt" Project, artist's books, Brijesh Patel, photograph, techniques
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Kings College, India Institute – Professor Akhil Gupta’s lecture “an Anthropologist’s View of India after Liberalisation”
Professor Gupta explored and expanded on some of the themes that he has been writing about concerning India as a modern state post 1990′s liberalization. Some startling facts that came out were regarding rural India and the agricultural society that … Continue reading
Monuments of Knowledge: Dayanita Singh at Inigo Rooms, King’s College London
Set over a space of three rooms, two being print displays and a third being a digital slideshow, the deep, rich black & white images take us into the world of Indian Inland Revenue archives and bring us face to … Continue reading
Khadi for the Salt / Land & People Artist’s Books
The artist’s books for the project have been made with some very unique hand spun organic cotton. All the cloth in the book is khadi (hand-spun cotton), commissioned by me from the great grandchildren of Ramgidada and his wife Gangben … Continue reading
A look back at making of the Salt project:
Over a period of two years I made numerous trips along the Salt March route. I wanted to experience the landscape at different times of the year as each season would have its own special light and the human activity … Continue reading
Scenes from a tiny Island / The Hunt
Jostein took me out on a hunt yesterday evening. When I got to his house, he immediately fished out of his extensive hunting wardrobe appropriate clothes to keep me warm and dry. I kind of protested at being told to … Continue reading
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Scenes from a tiny Island / An Old Couple
The man’s wife took us to one side and started chatting to us in Norwegian. Within five seconds we realised that she did not understand English. This however did not stop her flow of softly spoken chitchat. It also became … Continue reading
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Scenes from a tiny Island / Human Presence:
Yesterday I was invited to photograph theater rehearsals at the Sunnhordland folkehøgskule. Since the beginning of the residency I have gravitated towards photographing landscapes and inanimate objects and observations. But for the past few days, my trigger finger had been … Continue reading
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