Nov 17 2026 to Nov 17 2026 6:30 p.m.

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Where

Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)

Kasturba Road, Bengaluru 560001

Event Description

Join us for a screening of a documentary by Sabeena Gadihoke on 3 female photographers: Homai Vyarawalla, Sheba Chhachhi and Dayanita Singh. 

Three Women and a Camera is a film about Homai Vyarawalla, India’s first woman photojournalist for three decades from the late 1930s, and two contemporary female photographers — Sheba Chhachhi and Dayanita Singh. Vyarawalla’s work underscores the optimism and euphoria of the birth of a nation, while Chhachhi and Singh attempt to grapple with the complexities and undelivered promises of the post-independence era. This film debates their concerns regarding representation, subject-camera relationships, and the limits and possibilities of still photography in India in the late 1990s.

The film Three Women and a Camera has won several awards, including the second prize at Film South Asia, a documentary festival in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1999 and a Certificate of Merit at the Mumbai International Film Festival for animation, documentary and short films, 2000.

This event is part of Art is Life: Elsewhere  hosted in collaboration with Bangalore International Centre, as an offshoot series of programs as part of our annual festival Art is Life. 

Sabeena Gadihoke
Director

Sabeena Gadihoke is a Professor at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia. Gadihoke, who began her career as a filmmaker, has published on contemporary documentary films, photography, popular visual culture and female stardom in Bombay cinema. She has written a book on India’s first woman press photographer Homai Vyarawalla titled Camera Chronicles. A photo historian and curator, she curated retrospective shows on Vyarawalla as well as commercial photographer Jitendra Arya at the National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. Her exhibition (co-curated) titled Twin Sisters with Cameras on the photographs of Debalina Mazumder and Manobina Roy travelled to Calcutta, Delhi, Lucknow and Bangalore.