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Rahaab Allana is Curator/Publisher, Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, New Delhi. A Charles Wallace grant awardee and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (UK), he received his MA in Art History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and was Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Visual Anthropology at University College, London. He was Founding Editor of PIX, a themed digital publication that focused on South Asian lens-based creative work, and Founder of ASAP | art (Alternative South Asia Photography | Art), the region’s first app for presentation and discussion of contemporary visual cultural production. Allana works nationally and internationally with museums, archives, cultural initiatives/institutions, universities and arts festivals.
The essays, though insightful and thought-provoking, often demand working knowledge of the concepts and ideas in visual culture. Nevertheless, for those prepared to engage deeply, “Another Lens” offers a rewarding experience. The diverse contributions from scholars and practitioners provide a brilliant amalgamation of lens-based practices to the creation of a modern image culture, making it an essential reading material for scholars, practitioners, photography enthusiasts as well as students of media and visual studies. -- Moureen Kalita * Doing Sociology * This volume with its diversity of time, locations and emergent lens-based practices becomes another valuable resource material for scholars, practitioners as well as students who in this day are looking at interdisciplinary methods in the media sphere. -- Sohail Akbar * The Book Review *
