Unreadability in South Asian Photography

In today's episode, I'm reading an essay by Eleanor Sanghara Güstard, published in Shade Art Review today. Eleanor inherited an old Nikon F50 from her late father. When the lens cracked, she kept shooting through it. Those "poor images" became a methodology for navigating her position between Britain and India, whiteness and brownness. In her essay, Eleanor traces a lineage of South Asian…