https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/e59a01280b5e273001a15f8134c7e772.jpg 3230966ac1367ac67462e51b481de275 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/c172589388222b0f8ea4b91a583e2707.jpg d4b40d52daef58b40ae4e460b878c34f https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/f5b764018aa5825e394308b9a41a15b0.jpg 87d86d66840a81ebf6331ce56bda2dc4 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/ce964cb185fe5b3816ec49739e16786e.jpg fef929797a158d6053e8d53dc508252a https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/b630bc7e24272cad6b44780b5b50ddda.jpg 64434d256ffbedcc4bc59693ba701766 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/0139375771ea67b30cd291f992ecc3aa.jpg 0f186aebadffdc22a88bc76bb02efbd2 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/222f0fc2421772a3c35277134e458281.jpg a765f7702d5db9719b257bbf79e7e4c9 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/3c970d680a8adf11f22a70746daa7665.jpg 8a3f6b58bab8f9facf624e7dbca05777 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/4debc99a434ffb531e39df287e32bae9.jpg b4d0b9f89e633e937e5627bb79385b5c https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/8a47f30d3096d880e286e8e1cc31b765.jpg faf7b81832bff55d28e0bb09f5e241cc https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/5f4fcbdbbf98b6535cb0017aaff19f35.jpg 7600c227ee19f9b383c6f39b9779f1f9 https://photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/65e8da5edc40ffd049423574de472b17.jpg 473c025c76aa9ee85caf17146e447440 Photobook Photo Book Dimensions Dimensions of object in cm 14 x 18 x 1.5 cm Number of Pages Number of Pages 136 Edition Size Edition Size 800 Place of Publication Place of Publication Melbourne Designer Designer Narelle Brewer Editor Editor Justine Ellis, Dan Rule and Ash Holmes Printer Printer Wilco Art Books, Netherlands ISBN ISBN 978-1-922545-11-4 Website Website https://anukumar.com.au/ URL Link to project URL Link to project https://www.perimeterbooks.com/collections/perimeter-editions/products/special-edition-pre-order-anu-kumar-ghar Where to buy Where to buy Available via Perimeter Books (perimeterbooks.com) as well as international bookstores and gallery stores. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ghar Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Anu Kumar Description An account of the resource Ideas around place and identity have never been unequivocal for Anu Kumar. When the young Melbourne-based photographer returned to to her birthplace of Kavi Nagar, India, for the first time since childhood at age twenty-one, she felt at sea. ‘I remember a feeling of discomfort, of not knowing my place or who I was in that context,’ she says. ‘I began taking photos as an exercise in learning how to be Indian.’ The term Ghar, meaning ‘home’ in Hindi, doubles as the title of this, her debut book, and the broader outcome of her pursuit – one that is as much a new beginning as it is a homecoming. Shooting over a period of five years on a medium format camera, Kumar’s soft gaze meanders between the rooms and courtyards of the family home in Kavi Nagar, and out onto the neighbouring streets, sketching out the symbolic and aesthetic markers of a personal and cultural heritage. Formal portraits of her grandmother, aunts and uncles, echoing the traditional family album, give way to intimate scenes of daily tasks and quiet idleness – a thorough visual record to preserve intergenerational gestures and familial rituals that may otherwise linger in the undocumented everyday. Kumar’s search for familial closeness was suddenly given a new sense of universality when the COVID-19 pandemic closed Australia’s international borders for almost two years. Edited and sequenced during this period, Ghar also speaks to the enforced distance experienced by cross-cultural families, and the role of photographs as vessels for intimacy and connection. The series contemplates ‘home’ in all its multiplicities. A place, a sentiment, a responsibility; something at once inherently familiar and other times distant and incongruous. Subject The topic of the resource 300 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource LEUV Offset., cold glue section-sewn hardcover Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2022 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Perimeter Editions Photography portraiture