This Photographer Wants To Put A Museum In Your Pocket
When Dayanita Singh grew frustrated with the conventional gallery format, she created Museum Bhavan, an exhibition of almost 300 photos housed in a small box.
For the past two decades, photographer Dayanita Singh has been the subject of exhibitions and retrospectives at museums around the world. Her poetic images of Indian family life and architecture, abandoned spaces and private moments, are the kind of classically beautiful works coveted by curators and collectors.
But in recent years, Singh became frustrated with the conventional gallery format. "Photography is such a magical form but it's gotten a little stunted," she says. "The most magical experience of
