Handmade Photography Today: A Virtual Artist Talk Series -Pushpamala N

The Davis Museum continues the Handmade Photography Today artist talk series with a focus on “Portraits of Place.” This spring, we will hear from four acclaimed photographers working in alternative processes: Zohra Opoku (photo processing on textiles), Pushpamala N (tableaux and studio photography), Gerardo Suter (manipulated gelatin silver prints), and David Benjamin Sherry (analog color prints). Each artist’s chosen format inflects the aesthetic, social, and political consequences of their work. In foregrounding material processes in relation to image content, this second part of the Handmade Photography Today series will elaborate themes explored in the fall, while confronting a range of pressing issues related to the role of cultural memories and visual archives in contemporary formations of place.

Join Liza Oliver, Diana Chapman Walsh Assistant Professor of Art at Wellesley College, in conversation with photographer Pushpamala N, who creates vivid tableaux and photo-performances that satirize the history of studio photography in India.

Preregistration required here.

Co-hosted with the Photographic Resource Center

Generously sponsored by the Bern Schwartz Family Foundation