{"product_id":"dayanita-singh-lets-see","title":"Dayanita Singh: Let's See","description":"\u003ci\u003eLet's See\u003c\/i\u003e is a photo-novel of Dayanita Singh's earliest years as a photographer, a return to a time when she did not yet consider herself a photographer, the probing remembrance of \"an eye I no longer have access to.\" Singh has recently poured through 40 years of her archive-80% of which remains unseen-exploring scans of her contact sheets and being amazed by the gentle and tender images from the 1980s and '90s she had since forgotten-hostel roommates, friends with whom she lived, family, weddings, funerals; portraits of herself and those who would become important characters in her life: her mother Nony Singh, Zakir Hussain, Mona Ahmed whom she depicted in the emotive visual biography Myself Mona Ahmed (2001).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Singh's first camera, a Pentax ME Super with a 50mm lens, was a gift from the German publisher Ernst Battenberg (1927-92), and with it she \"made photos of everything I could, trying to make a roll of film last as long as possible,\" creating contact sheets of all her images, but realizing the rare luxury of an individual print only for a publication or a book project. \"I call this book Let's See,\" says Singh, \"because these images are about exactly that: how we see, what we don't see, what only the camera sees...\"","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42663982563364,"sku":"9783969990087","price":43.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783969990087.jpg?v=1777350628","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/dayanita-singh-lets-see","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}