[ecrea] cfp - photography in india in light years and digital times

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS


*PHOTOGRAPHY IN INDIA IN LIGHT YEARS AND DIGITAL TIMES*

We are inviting abstract submissions for an edited collection on
photography in India (Editors: Aileen Blaney and Chinar Shah)

India’s rapid urban and rural transformation in recent years is
synchronous with changes in photographic practice, with the medium
oftentimes being pushed to breaking point in order to talk about the
problems of India. Far from the much-hyped death of photography, a new
generation of photographers are making images – without precedence in
the earlier traditions of documentary and photojournalism practised by
their forerunners – that form part of a new terrain of photography in
India today. Here and elsewhere, there has been a shift in emphasis from
that of taking photographs to making images, from chemistry and light to
programming and algorithms.Cameraless photography is gaining ground
globally and yet there is renewed demand in countries across Europe and
Asia for analogue technology. A subsequent proliferation in the supply
of images, allied with an expanded range in image-making technologies
and photo-sharing platforms are indicative of the scope of photography
in India today, and provide a lens through which to gauge its possible
futures. Thoughtful and imaginative exploration of developments and
issues related to photography in the context of India is urgently needed
so as to connect the field with a level of critical reflection that
hitherto has been largely absent.

This publication will open up new dialogues around photography in India,
exploring its present and future through a range of theoretical, visual
and critical frameworks.

We welcome proposals from scholars, researchers and practitioners that
may include but are not limited to the following themes:

- Incredible India – images producing the nation
- Vernacular photography in India – from family album to the selfie
- The /right/ approach to photography in contemporary India
- Dalit camera
- Coding behaviour in a time of social media updates
- Postconflict portraiture: photojournalism’s reenactment of the victim
- The image and the state: technologies of control
- Exiled images
- A poverty of images – NGO portrayals of India
- The politics of representation: transformations at the level of the
national in India today
- Postdigital landscapes in Indian photography
- Representing the farmer, the farmhouse and farmlands
- Food images from the menu card to instagram
- The digital turn: new expressive possibilities for photography?
- Photography after photography: the image gone mobile
- Post-internet photographic practices
- Reconfigurations of time and space in digital imagery
- Conceptual and ideological bases of early photography in India
- Photography and its democratisation in studio portraiture
- What is the nation in Indian contemporary photography?
- The gendered camera and censored body
- Domesticating the porn star
- The role of the photographic image in contemporary India

If you would like to propose a chapter please send a 750 word abstract
and short bio to: Chinar Shah (photographer and faculty at Srishti
Institute of Art, Design and Technology) (chinar21 /at/ gmail.com) and Dr
Aileen Blaney (Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology)
(aileen.blaney /at/ srishti.ac.in) <mailto:(aileen.blaney /at/ srishti.ac.in)>

We have had a number of publishers express interest in the publication
and will be able to share details soon. The deadline for receipt of all
proposals is 20 June, 2015. We will attempt to notify all correspondents
before July 1 regarding the status of their submission. Completed draft
manuscripts of 5500-7000 words will be due by December 15, 2015.






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