Bharat Sikka, The Sapper

The Sapper

Bharat Sikka

Publisher
Fw:Books
Year
2023
ISBN
978-90-832251-9-7
Specifications
Paperback
23.5 x 28 cm
192 pages
Colour
Text by Charlotte Cotton
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2024

Bharat Sikka turns his camera on his father, a former officer in the Corps of Engineers of the Indian Army — a sapper. Made over several years, the sequence moves between staged portraits, the rooms and objects of a family home and the landscape around it, tracing a slow negotiation between a son and a father and between the discipline of a military life and the freedom of a photographic one.

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