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| Parthiv Shah | |
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| Nationality | India |
| Awards | The Charles Wallace Award, 1998 |
Parthiv Shah is an alumnus of the National Institute of Design, India, the University of California, Davis and visiting scholar at the SOAS, London University. Parthiv is a photographer, film maker and a graphic designer. He has made several documentary films, curated exhibitions and has several photo-books[1] to his credit. Growing up in a family of artists and through his own professional training, he brings an interesting intersection of art, photography and design to his work.
He is founder–director of Centre for Media and Alternative Communication (CMAC). Lately[when?] Parthiv has been particularly interested and engaged in working on the issue of image perception and representation. His visual journeys have lead him into working with communities which are finding a mainstream voice and identity including the transgender community and street children.
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[edit] Career
He started his career in 1986 as film intern for the six-part film series The Ring of Truth, Public Broadcasting Associates, Cambridge, MASS, USA. In 1986 he became Associate Animator, Al Jarnow Studios, North Port, NY, USA. In 1988 as Associate Director for Video series “Design and the Designer” Client: UNESCO, Producer: NID, Ahmedabad. In 1988 Associate Producer-India India episode, film series State of the World, Public Broadcasting Service, USA. In 1989 he switched over as Film Executive Independent Television Co. Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi. 1991 as Senior producer: PTI-TV, New Delhi. He is the visiting faculty at National School of Drama (NSD) and National Institute of Fashion Technology(NIFT) since 1992 and 93 respectively. In 2003 he was Creative Producer-India film series World in Balance, Public Broadcasting Service, (WGBH), USA
[edit] Photography
[edit] Photography exhibitions
- Tribal Ritual and Folk Myth, Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad, India, 1981
- Aditi, Festival of India, USA and U.K., 1982
- Gods of the Byways, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, U.K., 1982
- Energy, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India, 1983, Form and many forms of mother clay, Crafts Museum, Minge International, India and USA, 1985 and 1986, Pratibimba, Festival of India, Moscow, Russia, 1986, My Land My People, Festival of India, Tashkent, Alma Ata and Moscow Former USSR, 1987-88, The Art of The Adivasis, Festival of India, Tokyo, Kumamoto, Saitama, Hyogo, Japan, 1988, Artist Alert, SAHMAT, New Delhi, India, 1989, Images and Words, SAHMAT, Traveling exhibition in India, 1990, India Songs, Australian Arts Council, Sydney, Australia, 1993, Tradition and Modernity in India, Aliance Francaise, New Delhi, India, 1993,
Postcard for Gandhi, SAHMAT, Six cities in India, 1995, Gift for India, SAHMAT, New Delhi, India, 1997, India Photo Biennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India, 1998, 7 cities of world, La Boca Del Lobo, Madrid, Spain, 1999, Digital Art Photos, Bilefield and Bonn, Germany, 2000, Figures, Facts, Feelings - A diasporic dialogue, British Council, New Delhi, 2000, Art Folio, Chandigadh, 2001, India Alive, Dresden, Germany, 2001, Working in the mill no more, Max Muller Bhavan, New Delhi, SEWA, Ahmedabad, Trade Union Museum, Amsterdam, 2004-2006, Ways of resisting, SAHMAT, New Delhi, 2005, Chhobi Mela, DRIK, Bangladesh, 2005, Street walking, IHC, New Delhi, 2006, Vision Beyond, Art Indus, New Delhi, India, 2007, Ananya, Bajaj Capital Art House, New Delhi, 2008, Make your own history, SAHMAT, New Delhi, 2008, Satyagrah, South Africa, Spain, 2008, 2009, Chhobi Mela V, DRIK, Bangladesh, 2009, Voices of Dignity, Amnesty International India, New Delhi, 2009, SAHMAT 20, M F Husain Gallery, New Delhi, 2009, PhotoART Asia Expo, Bangkok, Thailand, 2009, Images for change - World Fair Trade Week, Kolkata, India, May 2009
[edit] Photo editor
- India International Quarterly for special issues
- India 60 - A New Paradigm, 2007
[edit] Photography workshop
- For children of a re-settlement colony, Mangolpuri, India.
- Transgender community, Yamuna Pushta, New Delhi.
[edit] Photographs in the collection
- National Gallery of Modern Art, India.
- Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India
- MIT, Cambridge, USA.
- University of California, Davis, USA.
- Minge Kan, Tokyo, Japan.
- Australian Arts Council, Sydney, Australia
- Eames Design Office, LA, USA.
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
[edit] Individual collection
- Christo, New York
- Issye Miyake, Tokyo
[edit] Photographs published in
- Times of India
- Indian Express
- India Magazine, Marg, India Today, Sunday, IGNCA, CII, Lalit Kala Akademi, INTACH, NSD Rep., India International Centre, National School of Drama
- Aaga Khan Rural Support Programme, UNESCO, UNICEF
- IGNOU.
[edit] Film and video
- Kalaraksha (film at editing stage for Judy Frater)- A corporate film on a crafts organization in Kutchh, Gujarat.
- Looking (film at editing stage) – About image making in Bollywood in collaboration with Laurent Van Lacker, Belgium.
- Painting with Needle – One of the five-part serial on Visual Anthropology
- Maati ka Chitra – The life and art of Sonabai - One of the five-part serial on Visual Anthropology.
- The Singing Line - One of the five part serial on Visual Anthropology.
- Jaipur - A film on architecture and lifestyle.
- Ahmedabad - A film on architecture and lifestyle.
- The Dawn of Hope - Current affairs film on Kashmir.
- Anhad Garje - Four-part video series on Sufi-Bhakti music.
- Janotsav - Documentary on people’s movement.
- Indian Airlines, corporate documentary.
- CMPDI, A corporate documentary on Coal mining.
- Tana-Bana- Short films for a cultural weekly programme.
- Voice that Paints, a short film on a singer who also paints
- Second Struggle for freedom, Two television spots on Literacy.
- Panchayati Raj, A television spot, Client: M.P. Government
- Teen Kahaniyaan, Film based on stigma related to HIV/AIDS for UNAIDS and NACO
Two of the films have been selected for RAI film festival
Worked on weekly programmes such as: Suprabhat, Money Matters, Economy Round Up, Focus, Budget Special, Election Special, News and current affairs programmes.
[edit] Books
- Figures, Facts, Feelings: A Direct Diasporic Dialogue Published by CMAC, 2000
- Working in the Mill No More: Published by the Oxford University Press and Amsterdam University Press, 2004
- Kaaya-Beyond Gender: Published by CMAC, 2005
- My Body is Not Mine: Published by CMAC, In Collaboration NAZ Foundation International, Supported by DFID-PMO, 2007
[edit] References
- ^ P.p.deshpande (2009). Garment-export Industry of India. APH Publishing. p. 228. ISBN 9788131304648. http://books.google.com/books?id=wef0vtQcagYC&pg=PA228. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
