Images Without People
Until Singh visited Goa in 1999, she says she could "never imagine making images without people". But the change has been drastic. "Now I photograph clouds!," she said in an interview.
Singh, earlier based in Delhi, has made a name for herself in an otherwise male-dominanted field, by attracting attention for her feature and news-based photographs in capitals across the globe.
A retrospective of the artist's work is planned at the Hamburger Bahnhoff in the German capital of Berlin in the past, along with a book from reputed publisher Scalo, focussing on the same work. "My publisher and guide made the decision of the retrospective after seeing my Goa images. That's the kind of difference Goa made to my work," she said in an interview.
In particular, Singh has been infatuated by the old world charms of a quaint village called Saligao, which lies just outside the beach-belt. Except in recent years when villagers have protested the large quantities of water being transported from here to the beach-belt, and the dumping of holidayers garbage nearby, the village has been mainly aloof from the hustle and bustle of the over-commercialised beach belt.
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