The theme for this year is “Kaleidoscopic Sites and Sights: The Printed Visual Culture/s of Religious Pluralism”, and we received an overwhelming number of exciting ideas and proposals for the same. We congratulate the following four candidates/teams that have been selected as Tasveer Ghar Fellows for 2008, for their respective topics:
1. Subah Dayal and Suzanne Schulz
Topic: Outside the Imambara: The Lives of Pilgrimage Souvenirs
2. Shirly Abraham and Amit Madhesiya
Topic: Religious Iconography in the Public Sphere - Painted and Tile Gods Adorning the Streets.
3. Daljit Ami
Topic: Exploring Ravidas, Understanding a Meeting Point of Faiths and Resistance
4. Joe Christopher and Alice Sampson
Topic: Challenging Dominance: The Visual Repertoire of the Bonallu Festival and Subaltern shrines in Hyderabad
See the details of the fellows for 2007