
The Sapper
- 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.