1 - 5 February 2024 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

NAVEEN KISHORE

PUBLISHER & PHOTOGRAPHER

Naveen Kishore established Seagull Books in 1982 as a publishing programme in the arts and media focusing on drama, film, art and culture studies. Today, it also publishes literature, including poetry and serious fiction and owns the worldwide English-language publishing rights for books by Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Bernhard, Imre Kertész, Yves Bonnefoy, Mo Yan, Mahasweta Devi, Peter Handke, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, among many others.  Kishore turned to photography where he extensively documented female impersonators from Manipuri, Bengali and Punjabi theatre practices. In particular he photographed Chapal Bhaduri, a female impersonator of the Bengali folk theatre, Jatra, in a project titled ‘Performing the Goddess’. Some of these pictures were exhibited as a part of the show, ‘Woman/Goddess’. He is also the recipient of the Goethe Medal and the Chevalier Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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