Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke is pleased to present a new body of work by the well-known photographer Dayanita Singh. Based in New Delhi, Ms. Singh has developed an international reputation as one of the most accomplished and astute photographers of her generation. This, her second solo exhibition with Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, presents her very first color images set in an industrial landscape.  Exploring the possibilities and limitations of color film in the traditional sense, without the aid of digital photography or computer manipulations, Singh produced BLUE BOOK.  “The challenge was to see if one could take a subject as sterile as industry and make it evoke an emotion. The combination of the two un-familiars (color and industry) gave me the blue book with a new language”, said the artist in a recent interview with ‘The Hindu’. 

Dayanita Singh has been awarded the Prince Claus award for 2008 by the government of The Netherlands. “Dayanita Singh is awarded for the outstanding quality of her images, for providing a complex and well-articulated view of contemporary India, and for introducing a new aesthetic into Indian photography.”  Singh is also a recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, from the Harvard University Art Museums.  On January 19, 2010, a retrospective of her work opens at the MAPFRE Foundation in Madrid.