GAURI GILL (1970)
Title: 'Untitled', from the series 'Nizamuddin at Night'
Edition 2/7
Year: 2007
Medium/Surface: Archival
pigment print
Size: 29 x 43
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GAURI GILL (1970) 

Gauri Gill was born in 1970in Chandigarh. She studied at the Delhi College of Art (1992), Parsons School of Design, New York (1994) and Stanford University (2002). Gill has recently emerged as one of India’s most significant young photographers. Her practice is complex because it contains several, seemingly discreet lines of pursuit. These include her more than a decade long study of marginalized communities in Rajasthan, and their difficult encounter with modernity (Notes from the Desert). She has also investigated and recorded issues around migrants and memory, (The Americans, Rememory, What Remains). Working in both black and white and colour, Gill’s work addresses the interrelated Indian identity markers of class and community as determinants of mobility and social behaviour. In her work there is empathy, surprise, subversive humour, and a human concern over issues of survival. According to Gill, in photography there is the question of power, of who is represented, who is made visible by the camera and who then becomes a "part of our collective consciousness as a society, and how we choose to see ourselves. ”The artist lives and works in New Delhi.