Gauri Gill

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Gauri Gill
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Born1970 (age 53–54)
New Delhi, India
Nationality (legal) Indian
EducationCollege of Art, Delhi University, Parsons School
Alma mater Stanford University (2002)
Known forPhotography
Website gaurigill.com

Gauri Gill (born 1970) is an Indian contemporary photographer who lives in New Delhi. She has been called "one of India's most respected photographers" by the New York Times [1] and one of "the most thoughtful photographers active in India today" in The Wire. [2] In 2011 Gill was awarded the Grange Prize, Canada's most prestigious contemporary photography award. [3] The jury said her works "often address ordinary heroism within challenging environments depicting the artist's often-intimate relationships with her subjects with a documentary spirit and a human concern over issues of survival." [4]

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Education and early life

Born in Chandigarh, India, Gauri Gill received her BFA in Applied Art at the Delhi College of Arts in New Delhi, India. She earned her BFA in Photography at the Parsons School of Design, New York in 1994, and MFA in Photography at Stanford University in 2002. [5]

Work and career

In The Americans (2000–2007) she photographed her family and friends across the Indian diaspora in America. [6]

A decade-long study of marginalized communities in rural Rajasthan called Notes from the Desert (1999 –ongoing) has resulted in individual exhibitions and projects such as The Mark on the Wall, Jannat, Balika Mela, Birth Series and Ruined Rainbow. [7] Of this work, she says, "The girls who come to the fair have an urge to know. Those who stepped into my photo tend also wished to portray themselves, as they are, or as they see themselves, or to invent new selves for the camera. Their attempts may have been tentative or bold, but this book may be seen as a catalogue of that desire." [8]

The 1984 notebook (2005–2014) is an example of collaboration and 'active listening', and of using photography as a memory practice. [9] [10]

In January 2007, along with Sunil Gupta and Radhika Singh, she co-founded and edited Camerawork Delhi a free newsletter about independent photography from New Delhi and elsewhere. [11]

In 2011 she won the Grange Prize, Canada's most prestigious contemporary photography award. [12] [13] [14]

In 2012, she curated a major exhibition called Transportraits: Women and Mobility in the City investigating safety and experiences of women on the streets. [15]

Since 2013, she has collaborated with Rajesh Vangad, a renowned Warli artist, on Fields of Sight, combining the contemporary language of photography with the ancient one of Warli drawing to co-create new narratives. . [16]

Selected Exhibitions

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  14. ↑ "Indian artist Gauri Gill wins $50,000 Grange Prize for photography". www.winnipegfreepress.com. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
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