Fellows for 2007

Tasveer Ghar is delighted to announce the selection of 3 fellows for our short fellowship on "Gender, Nation and Spaces for the Everyday" in popular visual arts of India for the year 2007:

1. Sujithkumar Parayil (Kerala) Topic: Icons of the reformist period and ‘re-formed’ icons of the present.
See his gallery >>>

2. Kamal Kumar Mishra (Delhi)
Topic: The changing dynamics of book illustrations from late 19th  century to 1960's: A case study of commercial Hindustani popular literature

3. Vishal Rawlley (Mumbai)
Topic: Bhojpuri raunchy album covers. See his gallery >>>

The period of their research/documentation starts in July 2007 and ends in December 2007, and their findings will result in virtual galleries on the Tasveer Ghar website – likely to be inaugurated in January 2008.

In addition to the above fellowships, Tasveer Ghar has also granted shorter fellowships called “Virtual Gallery Visual Essay” to the following researchers. This grant will result in the collection of images to be used in a Virtual gallery on the site.

1. Atma Ram (Chandigarh)
Topic: Commodification and objectification of woman on the titles of popular Hindi detective novels See his image gallery >>>

2. Javed Masood (Delhi)
Topic: Magazine ads from 1960s and 70s: Setting gender roles on the way to modernity. See his image gallery >>>

3. Inder Salim (Kashmir/Delhi)
Topic: Popular image culture of India-administered-Kashmir

4. Madhuja Mukherjee (Kolkata)
Topic: Cinematic re-presentations through other popular forms:  Icons and Mediated Spaces. See her image gallery >>>

5. Peerzada Arshad Hamid (Kashmir)
Topic: Changing forms of art in the public spaces of Kashmir.

6. Annapurna Garimella & Arun Kumar (Bangalore)
Topic: Miniature Societies (Narratives in traditional dolls).