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Chennai Photo Biennale Edition 4 celebrates work of women artists

Phase 1 of the Chennai Photo Biennale Edition 4 began on Friday with its thematic enquiry, ‘Why Photograph?’. Inaugurated by dancer Anita Ratnam at Lalit Kala Akademi, it features works of women artists across India, Germany, Switzerland, France, the U.K. and Palestine. “There are 21 women artists featured in this primary show, which is about positioning women in photography as …

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Through the CPB lens: the Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation announces the fourth edition of its photo awards

The Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation believes that photography is not about making the perfect image; it is about telling meaningful stories that represent the times we live in. At the last edition of the CPB Photo Awards — an annual event held since 2019 to recognise excellence in photography and spotlight regional talent in smaller towns across the country — …

Chennai Photo Biennale goes hybrid; invites us to reorient how we view history

Community of Parting is a 70-minute film in ‘Maps of Disquiet’, the hybrid exhibition stitched between virtual space and physical venues, part of the third edition of the Chennai Photo Biennale. In ‘Excavating an Imagination’ at Forum Art Gallery, the sequence of large photographs and texts examines the nature of imaging a significant site and the methods of investing it …

The Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation and the Confederation of Indian Industry is presenting an online exhibition featuring real life heroes that will acknowledge the efforts of many unsung heroes from across India. “It could be your cook, your vegetable vendor, your family, your friends who video chat from miles away, your lover, sanitation workers, the medical shop owner, food delivery …

The window bars arrange themselves into a geometrically satisfying grid as two heads pop out, anticipating an update on why the train has halted. Chennai Photo Biennale’s arts learning initiative CPB Prism recently launched a hashtag-led open call on Instagram #TicketToRide, in collaboration with Storytrails, to encourage people to look back and reminisce. “We wanted to initiate something positive.We had …