Bending the Line: Photographs by Rinku Dutta

Another Subcontinent presents an exhibition of photographs by Rinku Dutta. This will be our featured exhibition till March 11, 2008.

To view the photographs click on the thumbnails on the right. Each will open a larger image in this center window. To view a fresh set of thumbnails click on the gallery links; to return to this introduction click on "front". Copyright for all images is retained by the artist and these images may not be used, disseminated or displayed without his permission.

After viewing these galleries we invite you to visit our Visual Arts forum to discuss your own responses to this exhibition. Rinku Dutta will join the discussion.

About Rinku Dutta

Rinku Dutta was born in Sanctoria, Bihar. She spent her early childhood in Kumardhubi, Bihar, and teenage years in Dishergarh, West Bengal. She is currently engaged in post-doctoral research on the genomic analysis of Retinoblastoma, a cancer of the eye, at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A. She received her doctorate degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

During the period 2002-2006 Rinku explored South Asia, taking up various teaching assignments in Nepal, Pakistan and India. She received a Scholar of Peace Media Fellowship 2005 from Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of his Holiness the Dalai Lama, India. She began to explore photography while working on this fellowship that required her to write and publish her observations on life in Pakistan. "Exploring the Roots of Harmony: India and Pakistan" - a compendium of her essays was published by WISCOMP in July 2007. In 2006 she did a research consultancy at the Lahore Museum, working on a catalog for their Bengal School of Art watercolor paintings collection. Although Rinku has dabbled in many arts, her first love is poetry, which she writes as Tanu Neel.