Women on Sadiya’s frames

NEW DELHI - Fine art photographer Sadiya Kocher is an unconventional photographer, whose strong women- oriented subjects will be on display Feb 26 at the Polka Art Gallery in the capital under the heads ‘Symbols… forms and stereotypes’.

The woman in the photographer comes across as the child, the lover, the goddess and the whore - the stereotypes down the ages - in fluid mobile forms. Her black and white compositions of the modern woman are striking and full of energy.

The exhibition, also titled ‘Sadiya’ after the author’s name, reflects her journey as a photographer. She launched a book in Dec 2003, ‘Being…’ and followed it up with a show called ‘Within’ in 2005 and another one called, ‘Zikr’ in 2006. Sadiya exhibited in San Sebastian in Spain in 2006.

She draws her themes from places that she visits in course of her journeys abroad.

(Madhushree Chatterjee can be contacted at madhu.c@ians.in)