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A talk by curator Sabeena Gadihoke explores the extraordinary photographic journeys of Debalina Mazumder (1919 – 2012) and Manobina Roy (1919 – 2001) spanning over six decades.

About the speaker
Sabeena Gadihoke is a Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia. Gadihoke, who began her career as a filmmaker and camera person has published on contemporary documentary films, photography, popular visual culture and female stardom in Bombay cinema. She has written a book on India’s first woman press photographer Homai Vyarawalla titled Camera Chronicles (2006). A photo historian and curator, she has curated several photo shows including a series of retrospectives on Homai Vyarawalla and Jitendra Arya at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. Her most recent exhibition (co-curated with Mallika Leuzinger and Tapati Guha-Thakurta) titled Twin Sisters with Cameras on the photographs of Debalina Mazumder and Manobina Roy has travelled to several cities.

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