Sabeena Gadihoke
Homai Vyarawalla, Delhi, Mid 1950s. Courtesy of Sabeena Gadihoke.
Three Women and a Camera | 56 minutes | English | 1998
Join us to for a screening of a documentary by Sabeena Gadihoke on 3 female photographers: Homai Vyarawalla, Sheba Chhachhi and Dayanita Singh. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director and filmmaker.
Three Women and a Camera is a film about Homai Vyarawalla, India’s first woman photojournalist for three decades from the late 1930s, and two contemporary female photographers — Sheba Chhachhi and Dayanita Singh. Vyarawalla’s work underscores the optimism and euphoria of the birth of a nation, while Chhachhi and Singh attempt to grapple with the complexities and undelivered promises of the post-independence era. This film debates their concerns regarding representation, subject-camera relationships, and the limits and possibilities of still photography in India in the late 1990s.
The film Three Women and a Camera has won several awards, including the second prize at Film South Asia, documentary festival at Kathmandu, Nepal, 1999 and a Certificate of Merit at the Mumbai International Film festival for animation, documentary and short films, 2000.
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