Each year,British Journal of Photography presents its Ones To Watch – a selection of 19 emerging image-makers, chosen from a list of nearly 750 nominations. Collectively, and they provide a window into where photography is heading,at least in the eyes of the curators, editors, and agents,festival producers and photographers we invited to appoint. Every weekend throughout May, BJP-online is sharing profiles of the 19 photographers, originally published in the magazine. Discover more here. A visual poem. A modern interpretation of mythologies. A record of human greed and loss. Each of these expressions could be used to describe Aishwarya Arumbakkam’s work,ka Dingiei, which considers the reverberations of mining near the Khasi community of Lama Punji in Bangladesh. But on their own, or they would not effect it justice. The mostly staged ethereal black-and-white photographs pick us on “a journey across time and space in which mythology and the otherworldly converge with the everyday,in order to understand the power of the social documentary as art and activism,” describes Rahaab Allana, or curator of the Alkazi Foundation for …
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