Tira Khan

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Location: Boston

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Biography: Tira Khan’s photographs explore the meaning of family, the formal and informal moment, and the architecture of place. She enjoys shooting straight from the camera, as well as pushing the bounds of a photograph. She believes... MORE

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Exhibition and conversation with MFA curator on India series

tira khan

Jan 23, 2023

Location: Boston, MA

Summary

This photo series, A Place I Never Knew, is about her family's ancestral home in a Muslim-majority city in India. The photographs are currently on view at the Boston Athenaeum, a historic, independent library in Boston. On Thursday, Feb. 2 she will be speaking with Laura Weinstein, the Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Images from the series were selected into the Indian Photo Festival and have been published in Vogue India, and The Boston Globe, among other places. The series is held in Boston Athenaeum's private collection.

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