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Fairer People = Beautiful People + Powerful People

Arpan Mukherjee2012

Chennai Photo Biennale

Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India

Arpan Mukherjee's showcase at the Government College of Fine Arts during Chennai Photo Biennale 2019. A discussion was initiated among a group of dark complexion boys and girls on their experience of being dark. Issues about discrimination on the basis of skin colour and its possible reasons were discussed. Apart from the general thought that it derived from our colonial past, they also think that in our society it has a roll in terms of power demonstration. Arpan Mukherjee, used wet plate collodion and albumen print process to make their portrait, which has an established connection to anthropological photographic documentation process of Indian race and tribes by British photographers. The process is blue sensitive hence except ‘blue’ every skin tone will represent as black.

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  • Title: Fairer People = Beautiful People + Powerful People
  • Creator: Arpan Mukherjee
  • Date Created: 2012
  • Location: Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai
  • Type: Photograph
  • Original Source: Artist Website
  • External Link: Chennai Photo Biennale website
  • Exhibition title: The Face of Another
  • Exhibition Description: Here faces and bodies may transmogrify into other things, or stare at your you boldly.
  • CPB Edition: 2019
  • Artist's biography: Arpan Mukherjee, born 1977, trained in visual art. His practice is based on research and process oriented, largely focused on socio-economic and political issues. He uses 19th century photographic process as his medium and developed a practice-based research studio of historical photographic process in Santiniketan, named ‘Studio Goppo’
Chennai Photo Biennale

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