[act-ma] 10/14, Sanjay Kak, Photography in Kashmir 6:30 PM @MIT -

[Charlie Welch]

THE WOMEN'S & GENDER STUDIES PROGRAM  @MIT
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> PRESENTS
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> */WITNESS/*
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> */Photography in Kashmir/*
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> October 14^th , 2022 | 6:30 PM
> MIT - Room 56-114
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> Witness brings together images by nine photographers from Kashmir. 
> Documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak will be present to bring out the 
> varied relationships each contributor has to photography—and to 
> Kashmir—and invite discussion about the place of artistic practice in 
> zones of conflict.
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This includes Meraj Uddin, Javeed Shah, Dar Yasin, Javed Dar, Altaf 
Qadri, Sumit Dayal, Showkat Nanda, Syed Shahriyar and Azaan Shah. The 
text emerged from their conversations with documentary filmmaker Sanjay 
Kak, and brings out the varied relationships that each contributor has 
to photography—and to Kashmir—and in the process raises questions about 
the place of artistic practice in zones of conflict.

Witness began as a sort of 'archival' project, one of recovery. By the 
time it came out in 2017 it very much belonged to the present, as 
Kashmiri photographers suddenly emerged out of the shadows, with 
Pulitzers and global acknowledgement to follow. Two years later, as the 
slender autonomy enjoyed by the State was revoked in Aug 2019, a 
brutally enforced media clampdown followed, including on photographers. 
A silence has fallen on what was a fairly vigorous space. In some odd 
way Witness has returned to its early position as an archive.

This event will be open to the public at will take place at 6:30 pm in 
room 56-114.


https://calendar.mit.edu/event/witness#.Yz0IdkzMLRY

> Cosponsored by:
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> Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia
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> Boston South Asian Coalition
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