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A chat on Swapan Parekh’s new photobook, A Little Peace on Earth That’s Mine, and his journey as a photographer who consistently looks beyond the perceived boundaries of conventional practice, questioning the tenets of the medium. Swapan will be in conversation with Raj Lalwani, as witness and close friend.

About Swapan Parekh: 
Swapan Parekh is one of the most individualistic voices in Indian photography. With his early years spent in documentary and journalism, he later went on to revolutionise print advertising in India, with the use of a distinct aesthetic that through its immediacy, created ‘orchestrated realisms’.

Alongside, he has continued to nurture his personal work with an eye that is delicate and intuitive—seeking, finding, extracting curious configurations from his every day. With a visual lexicon that is defiantly his, his work stays within the periphery of the real, while flirting with the outrageousness of the imagined.

About Raj Lalwani:
Raj Lalwani is a visual artist, working with photography. With a practice that is in conversation with memory, cinema, the city and the night, he seeks photographs that are about suggestions, hesitations, incompleteness, in-betweenness.

For the better of a decade, Raj wrote on photography in India, engaging both with the history of the medium, and with fellow contemporary practitioners. He is an alumnus of the Nearest Truth Photobook Programme, a collective of artists and bookmakers from around the world. His first book, Daydream Delusion, will be published in 2025.

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