Presentation and Discussion between Photographer Sarah Jabbari and Art Critic Georgina Maddox | QAMRA Archival Project
March 11, 2024
The QAMRA Archival Project is happy to kickstart its activities for the new term on March 11th, with a presentation and discussion between photographer Sarah Jabbari and art critic Georgina Maddox on homelands and photography. All are welcome!
About the guests
Sarah Jabbari was born in Tehran, Iran, and developed an interest in photography at the Tehran Visual Arts School. She holds a PhD from the Jamia Millia Islamia with research interests in long-term documentary photography, history of photography, Iran, gender and culture. She has exhibited her work at the Delhi Photo Festival 2015, Angkor Photo Workshop in Cambodia 2018, and received the Sahapedia Frames Photography Grant in 2019.
Georgina Maddox is a journalist, visual artist and curator based in Delhi. Her work has appeared in publications like STIR world, MASH Take on Art, Art India, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Outlook magazine, The Times of India, Mumbai Mirror, and Mail Today. She has worked on two short films: Bombay Longing with Shalini Kantaya, and No Fixed Address with artist Tejal Shah. She has also curated several exhibitions and written catalogue essays for artists including Sunil Padwal, Shilpa Gupta, Sanjeev Sonpimpare, and Saba Hasan. Her essay on Bhupen Khakhar and Amrita Sher-Gil, “Challenging the Hetero-norm in Art”, was published in a Seagull publication titled The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India; edited by Brinda Bose and Subhabrata Bhattacharyya.