An exhibition of photo books explores the fault lines of physical and mental borders | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

An exhibition of photo books explores the fault lines of physical and mental borders | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Dipanita Nath |Updated: August 24, 2019 9:29:03 am

An exhibition of photo books explores the fault lines of physical and mental borders

Debashish Borah’s collection of photographs on Turtuk, titled “The Land with Pakistani Trees”, will be on display at a photo book exhibition, “Swim Across”, at TIFA Working Studios in Pune on August 24 and 25.

Borah’s collection of photographs on Turtuk, titled “The Land with Pakistani Trees”, will be on display at a photo book exhibition, “Swim Across”, at TIFA Working Studios in Pune on August 24 and 25.

At Turtuk, one of the last villages on the border of India and Pakistan, photographer Debashish Borah came across families separated by nationalities. “There are many family members who cannot meet one another or travel because they belong to different countries. I met a man, Goba Ali, who lives near Turtuk and visited Pakistan to meet his parents after around 40 years of separation and living across barbed wires but, practically, next to each other,” says Borah, one of the founders of an artists’ studio in Leh called Farside Collective, that works in the border areas between India and Pakistan.