JANUARY - AUGUST 2012
July-August - The Photographers' Gallery launched the project The World in London dedicated to the Olympic Games 2012. I was commissioned to take a portrait an Andorra citizen, Maria Francis. The project is exhibited till the end of August at Victoria Park, on Oxford Street and in the gallery. All details on the website made special for the project.
July - I was invited to Arts Residency TOKAMAK at HIAP, Finland
May - my photograph as part of commission was published in Evening Standard in frame of a project The World in London curated by The Photographers' Gallery
April - my new work I Am Usual Woman was exhibited in a group show Joyful Archipelago at Yinka Shonibare's Gurst Project Space in London
February - I represented a paper on CHHAYA International Conference on Indian Photography at National Instituty of Design, Ahmedabad India
February - The exhibition I curated Travelling Light finally has travelled to India and it was shown at Foyer Gallery of NID, Ahmedabad India
SEPTEMBER 2011
My project Marry Me is exhibiting at Hungarian Cultural Institute in Tallinn together with works of with Zsolt Szamódy, Hungarian photographer. Curator of the show is Gabriella Uhl. Exhibition Their India is open till 3 October, 2011
I am participating on the second round of the research workshop Inside Out which isconcerned with The Photography of India and its diasporas at International Centre of Photography in New York, USA
Together with Professor Anna Fox we finished up a research paper based on collaborative educational project Collective Body 2010.Research was supported by Learning and Teaching Funding of UCA.
Book Room is presented my new Three Books at Belfast Photo Festival in August and at The London Art Book Fair 2011 in Whitechapel Gallery on 23-25 September 2011.
JUNE-JULY 2011
I was nominated on SOTIRI Prize for young photographers
I have got a place on MA Photographic Studies course at University of Westminster. I am looking forward to start it from September!
The show Travelling Light will continue its journey and it will be exhibited in India in January-February 2012. I will be still curating the show, check the update regarding dates and place.
APRIL - MAY 2011
I curated an exhibition Travelling Light which opens on 10th May in Foyer Gallery (UCA, Farnham).
http://www.travellinglightshow.com/
The collaborative project with Ana Carvalho you tell me is expanding and involve the contribution of other women whose opinion we value. Follow the updates on the blog page:
http://anaandmaria.wordpress.com/
February – March 2011
Together with artist Ana Carvalho (Brazil) we are starting a collaborative online project called you tell me. We don’t know where it brings us but we are very exciting to do something together being on a distance. Find the link on it in the main menu.
My new project Marry me will be shown in group exhibition in London at Pushkin House. The opening of the show called Home-Made will be dedicated to 100 anniversary of International Women Day on 8th March, 2011. Show will run till 30th March.
A show of collaborative project Collective Body 2010 will be set up at UCA, Farnham in the beginning of March. Collective Body 2010 is online collaborative project in which were involved 4 universities: UMFG (Brazil), NID (India), LMU (UK), UCA (UK). I coordinate it from UCA side.
Collective Body 2010
I am starting to curate a show in Foyer Gallery (UCA, Farnham) of collaborative photo projects made by graduates of University for the Creative Arts (Farnham, UK) and National Institute of Design (Ahmedabad, India). The show will take a place on 11-18 May, 2011