Her portraits of people gradually found their way onto its pages, and those she photographed became a part of these diaries by sharing their words and text writing on the same pages. Chopra’s new photobook, ‘Majnu ka Tilla Diaries’ is a fragment of the voices that shaped her own relationships with the community, taken from the diaries she kept while visiting over eight years. This photobook is presented as a replica of the three journals that she has kept since.
Chopra is a photographer based in Delhi whose first body of work, “Bhutan, A Certain Modernity”, was shown in New York, Thimphu and across India. Academic Foundation published a monograph of the work, “The Ancient” (2015). Chopra photographed and interviewed the Tibetan community in Delhi for a long-term personal project. The book will be released in India on August 5 at 6 p.m. at the Alliance Francaise in New Delhi.
–IANS