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Zubin Pastakia has a Diploma in 16mm Filmmaking from New York University and a Bachelor’s degree in Development Economics from Bard College, New York. After his graduation, Pastakia worked in documentary filmmaking for two years and has now settled into photography. “Photography is a medium that seamlessly connects with my intellectual interests and my aesthetic sensibilities. I am self taught, and by familiarizing myself with photographic traditions from around the world, I can use those traditions of photography that help me say what I want to say,” says Pastakia. While he is currently working on a SARAI-CSDS supported photography project that looks at cinema halls as cultural experiences of space, his project for IHC’s Fellowship for Photography will explore ‘the idea of place by looking at the contemporary urban landscape’ It is titled: “Bombay: The Idea of a City”.
As winner of India Habitat Centre Fellowship for Photography 2007, Zubin Pastakia will receive a citation and fellowship amount of Rs.1,20,000 in four installments, spread over one year, to work on his chosen project. His project will be showcased at the Visual Arts Gallery in an exhibition in the forthcoming years.
Ashish Patil is an artist and a photographer who is currently working as a research associate (Conservator and Restorer) at the National Archives of Print Art, Lalit Kala Akademi Regional Centre, Lucknow. A trained artist with a post-graduate degree in Fine Arts, Patil worked as an artist for 12 years only to discover his talent for digital photography. “I found photography to be an extremely curious medium. The more I work in this medium, it further evokes my curiosity and creativity,” says Patil. Highly impressed with the powerful sense of forms which are commonly found in nature and manmade things, Patil wanted to explore the ‘pictorial composition of forms’ in his project.
As a recipient of India Habitat Centre’s Special Commendation, Ashish Patil will be invited to hold a special showing of his works at the Visual Arts Gallery in the forthcoming years.
Jury: Bandeep Singh, Sanjeev Saith and Tarun Khiwal
