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This World of Dew (signed)

by Aini Hasina Bano, Chandan Gomes

Photographs: Chandan Gomes

Publisher: PHOTOINK

Year: 2015

ISBN: 978-93-82846-02-4

Comments: hardcover, drawings by Aini Hasina Bano

'This World of Dew' is a soliloquy on loss and remembrance — a young child’s yearning for the mountains and a photographer’s search for that child, whose nameless drawing book he found abandoned in a hospice. This is a story about that journey.

"A few years ago, I was commisioned to photograph a hospital in Jaipur. The institution had completed four decades and its trustees wanted to make a book that commemorated its legacy. The hospital housed a hospice known as Avedna Ashram, which I often visited to make photographs. On one such visit, I found a book with drawings of mountains on a bookshelf. It had no name. I decided to hold on to it." Chandan Gomes

Chandan Gomes (b.1987) read Philosophy at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. He is the recipient of the 2011 India Habitat Centre Fellowship for Photography. In 2013 he was awarded the Oslo University College Scholarship to participate and present his work at Chobi Mela VII (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and the Neel Dongre Award in Photography. He was awarded the Foto Visura Spotlight Grant (2014) for the making of an artist book, This World of Dew.

Chandan’s photographs have been included in several group exhibitions including Foto Visura Spotlight at Brisbane Power House Arts, Brisbane, Australia (2014); Carnival of Dissent at Apeejay Media Gallery, New Delhi (2014), at the Delhi Photo Festival, New Delhi (2013); Sarai Reader 09: Episode 3, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon (2013); Apna Ghar, Vadehra Art Gallery, New Delhi (2012), Trespass, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi (2012).

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