The 6° Project : The First BLOWUP Fellowship

We are Tired of themes, so we came up with 6° Project  – based on the idea that anything can be connected to each other. We are going to use it as a conceptual springboard, each fellow has to not only come up with a new body of work but also do that collaboratively—all within 3 weeks! Experimental in nature it gives these fellows the chance to play and be free.

The result of this exercise will be up for all to see on 2nd February at the Experimental Arts Gallery at IHC. Stay updated through the blogs on how each one of them is progressing — here or on the unbox tumblr

BlowUp is a partner at UnBox Festival 2012 and is curating:
+ The UnBox Interdisciplinary Fellowship
+ Photo Exhibition ’6° Project’ @ IHC Experimental Arts Gallery (2nd-5th Feb) [RSVP HERE]
+ BlowUp New Delhi @ Canaught Place streets (4th February)

BlowUp—an effort to encourage photographers to present their work in public spaces using affordable materials and a way for the general public to experience the photographic image.

 [See earlier Blowups!]

Partners and Curators:

+ BlindBoys is a hybrid space at the intersection of new cultural activity, open frameworks and the dynamics of consumption of photography. BlindBoys is in principle a not-for-profit entity. www.blindboys.org

+ Bharat Sikka, who is one of India’s pioneering photographers working across contexts, and especially in fashion and contemporary storytelling.www.bharatsikka.com

+ Printer’s Devil, Delhi newest and zaniest mulch-disciplinary fine art printing and photography studio. [http://on.fb.me/wtj2XB]

STAY TUNED FOR MORE Including the fellows, videos, interviews and of course pictures

Robert Rutoed

Annalise Reinhardt

Julie Hau

Kannagi Khanna

Gemma Thorpe

Gavin A. Fernandes

Ashish Verma

Matteo Armellini

Daniel Kukla’s Captive Landscapes

Minny Lee’s Self-portrait, Mestre, Italy 2011

Doni Maulistya’s Happy EID happy family gathering

Carla Mendoza’s Will work for needs and wants

Sandi Jaya Saputra’s Have a Nice Dream

Submissions are still open – email your pictures to theblindboys@gmail.com

RSVP us on facebook or find out more here.

Blindgirls” – A diverse showcase of Photography from Asian women photographers doing photojournalism, documentary, and visual story-telling, alongside the work of emerging women photographers living in Delhi

Blindboys.org brings to you the “The Asian women photographers Showcase 2010″ , a slide-show exhibition curated by Yumi Goto with 15 photographer from across Asia. We promise an informal evening of sideshows from the showcase to the back drop of an informal exhibition of the work of other women photographers living in New Delhi. We’d also invite other women photographers to “bring their own prints”, and come and put up the Greenhouse, Hauz Khas in a collage format. The evening will end with beers, dimsum and hopefully a lively discussion.

YOU CAN RSVP ON FACEBOOK

Photographers Include :

Shiho Fukada (Japan) /Tatiana Plotnikova (Russia) / Jean Chung (S.Korea) / Rena Effendi (Azerbaijan) / Poulomi Basu (India)/ . Mery Agakhanyan (Armenia) / Wenjing Wang (China)/ Gali Tibbon (Israel)/ Burcu Goknar (Turkey)/ Ore Huiying (Singapore) /Isabelle Eshraghi (Iran)/ Ying Ang (China)/ Mariam Amurvelashvili (Georgia) /Saori Ninomiya (Japan) /Suruchi Dumpawar (India)

And the Local Girls :

Mansi Midha / Hajra Ahmad Ansari / Katharine Sidelnik / Anshika Varma / Madishetty Manasa / Tanvi Mishra

Also if you’re a Women photographer working or based in Delhi and we’ve some how missed you (SORRY)- you can bring your own prints and we’ll be sure to put your pictures up on the day .

All Queries – theblindboys@gmail.com or Akshay – +919833230562

On the 22nD January,2011 at GreenHouse @Hauz Khas Village, Delhi

This is part of are on-going blog coverage on how we bring photography to the streets and the people [#BLOWUPangkor]. BLOWUP Angkor is an open and free street exhibition plastered along the public walls of the city – in Siem Reap Starting November 23rd ]

Like always we leave things to the last moment. My last 12 hours in Delhi and I’ve taken on the job printing some 400 photographs.  Multiple bodies of work from over 20 photographers two participating collectives LUCEO and MJR !!

So I head to Nehru Place.

Nehru Place for the uninitiated is a Computer bazaar and home of probably the cheapest printing this side of Asia, at 15cents (Rs 7) per A3 print it seems unbeatable. A ominous collection of soviet era modernist skyscrapers clustered around over crowded central plazas. Explosions of brand names, a cacophony of vendors, waves of young men in fashionable shirts, and ancient diesel generators that roar to life every time the power goes down.

Photo: Katharine Sidelnik

[Photos : Katherine Sidelnik]

Printing done, I get a call and I have 5 minutes to pack and we head to the hospital.

Just in time to see Tara, kaushik and eli’s 6 hour old daughter Tara – then rush to airport.

Next Stop Siem Reap

FUTURELAND 2008-2010 – A project for a video installation and a photographic series.

FUTURELAND is a project that investigates and discovers the impact of the astonishing urban growth and development such as the rapid expansion of cities on their inhabitants and the environment as well as on the relation between architecture, public space, society and time by using video and photography.

The candidate must be somebody who could help the artist sort out a car + driver and assist during shooting. The candidate must also know the city of Mumbai well

If interested send us your portfolios and state you experience working in Mumbai on theblindboys@gmail.com – we will get you in touch

BY half-past 5 on a morning in early October, the sun rising over Blackwater Pond had already brightened the pine woods. I stood in a wide natural path, carpeted with brown-red needles, that rises up the forested dune from the southwest side of the pond.

I’d seen
their hoofprints in the deep
needles and knew
they ended the long night

under the pines, walking
like two mute
and beautiful women toward
the deeper woods, so I

got up in the dark and
went there. They came
slowly down the hill
and looked at me sitting under

the blue trees, shyly
they stepped
closer and stared
from under their thick lashes …

This is not a poem about a dream,
though it could be. …

- Mary Oliver