Three Women and a Camera

Join us for a screening of a documentary by Sabeena Gadihoke on 3 female photographers: Homai Vyarawalla, Sheba Chhachhi and Dayanita Singh. 

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, a documentary festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1999 and a Certificate of Merit at the Mumbai International Film Festival for animation, documentary and short films, 2000.

This event is part of Art is Life: Elsewhere  hosted in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre, as an offshoot series of programs as part of our annual festival Art is Life.