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Screen Walk with Anshul Roy
About this film
Anshul Roy’s Rage Against the Archive critically examines the 19th-century ethnographic book The People of India in the New York Public Library’s digital archives. For this Screen Walk, he built upon this to explore how the phenomenon of Orientalist imagery has evolved since “the other” gained more control over their representation. Has this shift led to more nuanced visual documentation of regions like India, or has it merely amplified the Colonial Gaze? Roy examined the proliferation of Instagram images from within India, focusing on photographic activity taking place in key locations like Pushkar Mela and Varanasi. He traced the genealogy of ethnographic photography in India and its transformation into contemporary self-Orientalism on Instagram, where the Colonial Gaze is now perpetuated by Indians themselves. Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. A new online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery , UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur , Switzerland. Screen Walks is kindly supported by: Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
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Screen Walks
Subjects
Screen Walks, Anshul Roy, colonialism, social-media, research, history
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