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SUMMARY:Witness to Paradise: Photojournalism in Kashmir's present 1986-201
 6 - Sanjay Kak\, Shruti Kapila\, Waseem Yaqoob
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CONTACT:Waseem Yaqoob
DESCRIPTION:A talk with pictures by Sanjay Kak (filmmaker & writer) and pa
 nel discussion with Shruti Kapila (History) & Waseem Yaqoob (History)\n\nH
 osted by the Critical Theory & Practice Seminar\n\nTuesday 7 March\n5.15 -
  6.45pm\nNihon Room\, Pembroke College \n\nPhotography in Kashmir has emer
 ged as a powerful witness to its troubled present. Rooted in photojournali
 sm\, but escaping its limits when they can\, a new generation of photograp
 hers have illuminated Kashmiri life in a period of upheaval. Over the last
  three decades their work has demonstrated the radical part that can be pl
 ayed by photographs in subverting established views of Kashmir – as a be
 autiful landscape without its people\; an innocent paradise\; and more rec
 ently\, of a paradise beset by mindless violence.\n\nWitness is a curated 
 book project that brings together images by nine photographers from Kashmi
 r\, the oldest already a working professional in 1986\, and the youngest n
 ot yet twenty in 2016. The images are by Meraj Uddin\, Javeed Shah\, Dar Y
 asin\, Javed Dar\, Altaf Qadri\, Sumit Dayal\, Showkat Nanda\, Syed Shahri
 yar and Azaan Shah. \n\nThe text emerged from conversations with documenta
 ry filmmaker Sanjay Kak\, and brings out the varied relationships that eac
 h contributor has to photography and to Kashmir\, in the process raising q
 uestions about the place of artistic practice in zones of conflict.
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Foundess Court\, Pembroke College
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