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Rail Diwali
Arko Datto
San Francisco International Airport
22 October 2021 – 12 May 2022

Running until 12 May 2022 (terminal 3)

East Wing proudly announces this collaboration with San Francisco Airport Museum.

Diwali, the festival of lights, is an annual Hindu festival celebrated during the autumn season. The festival signifies the spiritual triumph of light over darkness, good over evil, knowledge over ignorance, and hope over despair. In East India, it coincides with the Kali Puja, a festival dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali. In his series Rail Diwali, Arko Datto explores how this festival is celebrated in some of the most underprivileged and heavily populated areas of Kolkata.

Achromatopsia is characterized by extreme light sensitivity, poor vision, and the complete inability to distinguish colors. In Micronesia achromats adapt to their reduced level of visual functioning (due to lack of resources like sunglasses and tinted lenses), by using visual strategies such as blinking, squinting, shielding their eyes, or positioning themselves in relation to light sources.Portraying the mythical island and achromotapic islanders, Sanne De Wilde created a conceptual series of images that invites the viewer to enter a dreamfilled world of colorful possibilities. She questions, if the colorblind people could paint with their mind, how would they color the world, the trees, themselves?
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
© Arko Datto from the series, Rail Diwali
Sanne De Wilde (Belgium, 1987) in her photography explores the role genetics play in peoples lives and how this shapes and affects communities. She graduated with a Master in the Fine Arts at KASK in Ghent (BE) with great honours in 2012. Her photo series ‘The Dwarf Empire’ was rewarded with the Photo Academy Award 2012 as well as the International Photography Award Emergentes DST in 2013. Her serie ‘Snow White’ was awarded 16ème Prix National Photographie Ouverte and NuWork Award for Photographic Excellence. She was awarded the Nikon Press Award in 2014 and 2016 for most promising young photographer.
The British Journal of Photography selected De Wilde as one of ‘the best emerging talents from around the world’ in 2014 and received the Firecracker Grant 2016, PHmuseum Women’s Grant and de Zilveren Camera award for ‘The Island of the Colorblind’ and most recently won a World Press Photo for her collaborative project with NOOR Photographer Benedicte Kurzen for “Land of Ibeji” in 2019. She has been internationally published (Guardian, New Yorker, Le Monde, CNN, Vogue) and exhibited (Voies OFF, Tribeca Film Festival, Circulations, Lagos Photo, Lodz Fotofestiwal, IDFA, STAM and EYE).Sanne De Wilde is represented by East Wing | Doha.Since 2017, De Wilde is an active member of the NOOR Agency.

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