Edited and Curated by: Anshika Varma
Editorial Team: Moakshaa Vohraa and Radhika Iyengar Designers: Ananya Khaitan and Kaashvi Kothari
Dimensions: 148 x 210 mm
Published by: Offset Projects
Editions : 2020, 2022
Language : English, Malayalam, Nepali, Tamil, Urdu
Hard Case Cover deconstructed photo-book featuring chapters by 10 contemporary practitioners from India, Nepal and Pakistan.
Featuring
Adira Thekkuveettil, Amarnath Praful, Arko Datto, Arun Vijai Mathavan, Cheryl Mukherji, Diwas Raja KC, Jaisingh Nageshwaran, Nandita Raman, Nida Mehboob, Uma Bista
About the Book
Guftgu looks at the interrogations and practices of 10 contemporary photographers in South Asia presented as individual chapters designed in context to each artists’ practice and process. The works featured inquires on identity formation and history building through perspectives of gender, caste and inheritance among many others. The works incorporated in this curation expand on a growing visual language and offers a complex study of the region through personal responses by photographers to their contemporary climates.
Production Details :
Cover:
1st Ed. Packaging box, screen-printing,
2nd Ed. Hard Case Slip Cover, screen-printing and debossing
Binding: Singer sewn binding
Printing: Naveen Printers, New Delhi.
1st Ed. Indigo digital printing
2nd Ed. Offset 4 colour CMYK printing
Edition Size:
1st Ed. (2020) 150 copies
2nd Ed. (2022) 500 copies
You can access the book at the following collections :
MEP , Paris
MAP, Bengaluru
MoMa, San Francisco
Asia Art Archive, New Delhi
Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Taikwun Contemporary, Hong Kong
Phoboko, Hong Kong
Athens Book Fair, Greece
Tsundoku, Ireland
Galeri Image, Denmark
ICP Library, New York
Available at :
Offset Bookshop, India
Pagdandi, Pune
Champaca Bookshop, Bengaluru
Paper Planes, India
Galeri Image, Denmark
The Library Project, Dublin
ICP Store, New York
Lumenvisum, Hong Kong
Offset Projects 