QAMRA ARCHIVAL PROJECT PRESENTS

BE/LONGING:
Homelands in Photography

A conversation between Sarah Jabbari and Georgina Maddox

11 MARCH 2024
5PM
CR01, NLSIU LIBRARY

SARAH JABBARI
Sarah Jabbari was born in Tehran, Iran, and developed an interest in photography at the Tehran Visual Arts School. She holds a PhD from the Jamia Milia Islamia university with research interests in long-term documentary photography, history of photography, Iran, gender and culture. She has exhibited her work at the Delhi Photo Festival 2015, Angkor Photo Workshop in Cambodia 2018, and received the Sahapedia Frames Photography Grant in 2019.

GEORGINA MADDOX
Georgina Maddox is a journalist, visual artist and curator based in Delhi.  Her work has appeared in publications like STIRworld, MASH Take on Art, Art India, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Outlook magazine, The Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, and Mail Today. She has worked on two short films: Bombay Longing with Shalini Kantaya, and No Fixed Address with artist Tejal Shah. She has also curated several exhibitions and written catalogue essays for artists including Sunil Padwal, Shilpa Gupta, Sanjeev Sonpimpare, and Saba Hasan. Her essay on Bhupen Khakhar and Amrita Sher-Gil, “Challenging the Hetero-norm in Art,” was published in a Seagull publication titled The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India; edited by Brinda Bose and Subhabrata Bhattacharyya.