Contemporary artist and photographer Ram Rahman will present the Herwitz 100 lecture in NYC on July 28 from 6.30 to 8 p.m. at Gallery ArtsIndia. The topic will be “Photography and New Media in the Indian Art Scene – The 90's.” Admission is free.

Ram Rahman, photographer and curator, will talk about his friendship with the Herwitzes and their love for Indian art. He will also discuss the Herwitzes contribution to bringing Contemporary Indian art to a larger Western audience and how photography and new media – video, performance, installation – have become a major part of the contemporary art scene in India, particularly amongst the younger generation artists. While putting his own photography in context, Ram will talk about his contemporaries and their work.

There has been a sea-change in the kind of work which is now being shown in galleries and alternative spaces across India in the last decade as artists gain access to technologies not easily available until very recently. Ram will also talk about collecting art and shifting trends that reflect the emerging trends.

Ram Rahman studied Physics, Photography and Design in MIT and Yale in the 70's. For the past 25 years, he has divided his time between his loft in the Fulton Fish Market and his family flat in Civil Lines, Delhi. He has shown his photographs in individual and group shows in India and around the world. He is also a founding member of SAHMAT, the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust in New Delhi, which has been a leader in the resistance to communal and sectarian forces in India through its public cultural action and represents a very wide spectrum of the creative community.

Here is the address for the venue:

Gallery ArtsIndia,
206 Fifth Avenue
(between 25th and 26th Streets)
5th Floor, New York, NY 10010.
Phone 212-725-6092

Photo District News has now posted the winning images from The New School of Wedding Photography Contest.

The only desi image in the collection is of this anonymous couple by Alam-Willett Weddings. There are other great images of desi weddings – made in the documentary style on his web site. The image you see here is a very special moment suggesting fertility and progeny. Correct me if I am wrong.

If PDN hosts this contest next year, I'll be sure to enter it.

Via Sarah Bachman:

Child Labor & the Global Village: Photography for Social Change is raising money to send its 7th photographer to Central America. We've already sent 6 photographers to India, Nepal, Cambodia, Peru, Burundi, and Haiti. The next one may go to Central America. Their stories about children working, surviving, going to school, and growing up have been featured in newspapers (L.A. Times), magazines (Rangefinder, PDN), and radio (NPR). Help us send out the 7th photographer!

I have mentioned Julia Dean here on Tiffinbox more than a couple times. She is a a documentary photographer in her own right. She is also a wonderful teacher. Her workshops in Los Angeles are life-changing experiences. Her project to document the lives of children and the problems they face around the world have lit a fire under 11 enterprising photojournalists. But they all require your financial help to complete this project.

Will you help? To find out more on how you can support this important and worthwhile photo project, click here.

Former Barney's store in Chelsea reincarnates as the largest art museum in the nation devoted to Tibetan and Himalayan art.

“The art that fills this handsome new museum promises to reveal what we already know: that images, even those arriving from the ends of the earth, can tell us tales we recognize from the universal human mind.”

Worth a visit when it opens on October 2.

I take some pride in saying that I was responsible for introducing Jasmeen Patheja to Fotolog. But the way she has taken off with the opportunity to photograph and post images on that site is simply stunning. Check out this archive (six wholesome pages) of nothing but images of her perspective of the world. Take the photo below as an example. The juxtaposition is terrific. Well seen, beautifully crafted.

My own page on Fotolog has withered like grapes on a vine. But raisins can be sweet too. Thanks to Jasmeen, I might just resurrect that site as I have been photographing with a digital camera now (making it a whole lot easier to upload images). But instead of Fotolog, I might post mine at Flickr. I'll keep you posted.