{"product_id":"dayanita-singh-lets-see-9783969990087","title":"Dayanita Singh: Let's See","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet's See\u003c\/i\u003e is a photo-novel of Dayanita Singh's earliest years as a photographer, a return to a time when she did not yet consider herself a photographer. It is a probing remembrance of \"an eye I no longer have access to.\" Singh has recently poured through 40 years of her archive—80% of which remains unseen—exploring scans of her contact sheets and being amazed by the gentle and tender images from the 1980s and '90s she had since forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe images capture hostel roommates, friends with whom she lived, family, weddings, funerals; portraits of herself and those who would become important characters in her life: her mother Nony Singh, Zakir Hussain, and Mona Ahmed, whom she depicted in the emotive visual biography \u003cem\u003eMyself Mona Ahmed\u003c\/em\u003e (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSingh's first camera, a Pentax ME Super with a 50mm lens, was a gift from the German publisher Ernst Battenberg (1927-92). With it, she \"made photos of everything I could, trying to make a roll of film last as long as possible,\" creating contact sheets of all her images, but realising the rare luxury of an individual print only for a publication or a book project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I call this book \u003ci\u003eLet's See\u003c\/i\u003e,\" says Singh, \"because these images are about exactly that: how we see, what we don't see, what only the camera sees...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424027001068,"sku":"9783969990087","price":48.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783969990087.jpg?v=1774769405","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/dayanita-singh-lets-see-9783969990087","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}