Dayanita Singh: Let's See by Singh, Dayanita;

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Lets See is a photo-novel of Dayanita Singhs 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 archive80% of which remains unseenexploring scans of her contact sheets and being amazed by the gentle and tender images from the 1980s and 90s she had since forgottenhostel 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).

Singhs first camera, a Pentax ME Super with a 50mm lens, was a gift from the German publisher Ernst Battenberg (192792), 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 Lets See, says Singh, because these images are about exactly that: how we see, what we dont see, what only the camera sees