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The First Witness (Installation View)
Simon Lee & Algis Kizys's2016
Chennai Photo Biennale
Chennai, India
Vijay Jodha's showcase at the Government College of Fine Arts during Chennai Photo Biennale 2019. Since 1995, India’s agrarian crisis has claimed over 300,000 lives by way of farmer suicides. The survivors, predominantly widows, are both victims and the first witnesses in this on-going tragedy. This photography project is produced in collaboration with a few such witnesses.
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- Title: The First Witness (Installation View)
- Creator: Simon Lee & Algis Kizys's
- Date Created: 2016
- Location: Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai
- Location Created: Chennai
- Type: Photograph
- Original Source: Artist Website
- External Link: Chennai Photo Biennale website
- Exhibition title: An unbearable lightness of being
- Exhibition Description: A sense of dystopia, unease, maybe even giggly laughter, hysteria, melancholy, or even pictures of the unnoticed
- CPB Edition: 2019
- Artist's biography: Vijay is a Gurgaon-based writer, photographer and filmmaker. He studied filmmaking at New York University. He has produced five books and his projects have received over seventy honors in 24 countries which include 17 best film/director awards.
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