Dayanita Singh . Sea of Files

This book celebrates the South Asian photographer Dayanita Singh as the 2022 Hasselblad Award winner. It specifically highlights her consistent and unique engagement with the archive. It also reflects how the photobook is at the core of her artistic practice. The associative visual essay "Sea of Files" is included in its entirety, and so is the work "Museum of Innocence" as well as the recent series "Mona (in the archive) / Mona Montages" (2021). The stunning color photograph series "Time Measures" and "Painted Photographs" are also represented. Turkish author and Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk has written a personal essay about Dayanita Singh's photography specifically for this book.