Ashok Sinha is Nominated by Reviewers Heather Gazis (Head of Business Development, NOERR), Harris Fogel(Director of Sol Mednick Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia) and Jen Plaskowitz (Slideluck Global Coordinator).
American Bagpipers (reviewed by Harris Fogel and Jen Plaskowitz)
The series American Bagpipers depicts portraits of an Indian-American bagpipe band based in a Hindu temple in New Jersey and is part of a larger body of work that challenges audiences to reassess basic assumptions about identity and to regard each individual as solely defined by a personally chosen array of affiliations.
Exacting Proportion (reviewed by Heather J Gazis)
Exacting Proportion is an attempt to document a view of the world that puts the scale of our communities in perspective. We often lose ourselves in the world surrounding us and fail to realize civilization is limiting, even at its best. Only under the prism of a collective horizon can we evoke the constraints of our existence, and better understand the delicate balance that exists between us and the universe that we all share.
South of the Antarctic Convergence (reviewed by Heather J Gazis)
Abstract images of the travel experience on an icebreaker headed for the southern continent
Last Jews of Calcutta (reviewed by Harris Fogel, Jen Plaskowitz)
A project about the disappearing Jewish community of Calcutta. India. The once thriving “Baghdadi” Jewish community came as traders in the late 18th century, settled in a cosmopolitan urban environment, met no prejudice, and excelled in all spheres of endeavor. Once around 4,000 strong, just over 20 Jews remain today, and many are old and infirm. So small is the Jewish population that it doesn’t even appear in the city’s census.
Ashok was born in Calcutta, India, and has been living in New York City for most of his life. After graduating from Columbia University and NYU, he spent a decade constrained inside the cubicles and conference rooms of soulless corporations, until he could no longer bear to contain his creative impulses. His work has appeared in editorial outlets such as The New York Times, TIME and exhibited by The Museum of The City of New York and included in corporate and private collections. In 2011 he founded Cartwheel Initiative, a nonprofit organization that uses multimedia to inspire displaced and refugee youth to build bridges within their communities and across ethnic and social divisions.
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