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How do you think being from outside of India (and usually the West) might have changed how these artists chose their subjects and framed their shots? Another layer of mediation here is the fact that these were not digital cameras - and the action of photographing someone very conspicuous.

It is true (with portraits, especially), that photographs often reflect the relationship between the subject and the artist. Do you think dynamics like the native-former colonizer, or even the Young White Man on a Gap Year in South Asia play out on print? That'd be really interesting to notice, I think.

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