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Homai Vyarawalla
Book: India in Focus
Camera Chronicles of Homai Vyarawalla
Sabeena Gadihoke
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India’s first woman press photographer, Homai Vyarawalla captured the last days of the British Empire. Her work also traces the birth and growth of a new nation. The story of Homai’s life and her professional career spans an entire century of Indian history. Belonging to the small Parsi community of India, Homai was born in 1913 into a middle class home in Navsari, Gujarat.
The great value of Homai’s work lies in her vast collection of photographs that archive the nation in transition, documenting both the euphoria of Independence as well as the disappointment with its undelivered promises.
Published in the year that she received India’s first National Photo Award for Lifetime achievement, this edition pays tribute to her indomitable spirit and her contribution to early photojournalism in India.
Sabeena Gadihoke
http://magiclanternfoundation.in/saba-dewan-and-sabeena-gadihoke/
Sabeena Gadihoke is a writer, biographer and documentary filmmaker. Her film, Three Women and a Camera, has received several awards. She is also the founding member of the Mediastorm collective that has made several documentaries in the 1980-90s on gender and religious fundamentalism. Her area of work is on the history of photography in India. Her book, Camera Chronicles is based on India’s first photojournalist, Homai Vyarawalla. Sabeena teaches Video and Television Production at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia University in New Delhi.
August 20, 2017