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About the Photographer

About the Photographer Serena Chopra is a photographer and writer born in Secunderabad, India, and based in Delhi. The first publication of her work was Bhutan: A Certain Modernity (2006). The project took over twelve years to complete and resulted in exhibitions in New York, Bhutan, across India, and elsewhere. Bhutan was also the focus of her books The Ancients: Bhutan Diaries 2015 ( ) and Bhutan Echoes (2016). In the foreword to The Ancients: Bhutan Diaries, the Queen Mother of Bhutan, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, wrote: Having endured the harshest conditions traversing through remotest regions of the country to meet and interact with our people, she has written with deep insight and love of the places and people she has met and developed a great affection for them. From Laya in the North to Merak Sakten in the East, from Haa in the West to Samchi in the South, Serena has left a trail of friendship and goodwill. In 2016, Chopra published Along the Gang a collection of fifty-two pho a, - tographs taken on a journey along the river. In 2017, the Partition Museum, located in the Town Hall in Amritsar, India, invited her to exhibit her portraits of survivors http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Manoa University of Hawai'I Press

About the Photographer

Manoa , Volume 31 (2) – Dec 18, 2019

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Abstract

Serena Chopra is a photographer and writer born in Secunderabad, India, and based in Delhi. The first publication of her work was Bhutan: A Certain Modernity (2006). The project took over twelve years to complete and resulted in exhibitions in New York, Bhutan, across India, and elsewhere. Bhutan was also the focus of her books The Ancients: Bhutan Diaries 2015 ( ) and Bhutan Echoes (2016). In the foreword to The Ancients: Bhutan Diaries, the Queen Mother of Bhutan, Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck, wrote: Having endured the harshest conditions traversing through remotest regions of the country to meet and interact with our people, she has written with deep insight and love of the places and people she has met and developed a great affection for them. From Laya in the North to Merak Sakten in the East, from Haa in the West to Samchi in the South, Serena has left a trail of friendship and goodwill. In 2016, Chopra published Along the Gang a collection of fifty-two pho a, - tographs taken on a journey along the river. In 2017, the Partition Museum, located in the Town Hall in Amritsar, India, invited her to exhibit her portraits of survivors

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