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Dayanita Singh is an Indian photographer whose book-object Museum Bhavan won the 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook of the Year award.
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What is Dayanita Singh's Museum Bhavan?
Museum Bhavan is a 2017 Steidl book-object made as a box of small accordion-fold photo books. It won PhotoBook of the Year at the 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards.
Why does Dayanita Singh call some of her works museums?
Singh often treats the book, box, or portable structure as the exhibition itself rather than just a catalog. Projects such as Museum Bhavan and File Room let her rearrange archives, rooms, and sequences like a movable museum.
What was Dayanita Singh's connection to Mona Ahmed?
Singh's book Myself Mona Ahmed grew out of a long collaboration with Mona Ahmed, a eunuch living in Delhi. The work, published by Scalo in 2001, helped establish Singh's interest in biography, correspondence, and unconventional photo-book form.
Has Dayanita Singh won major photography awards besides the Paris Photo-Aperture prize?
Yes, Singh received the Hasselblad Award in 2022, one of photography's major international honors. She also received the Prince Claus Award in 2008 and was named a Chevalier in France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2014.
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