Parallel Cities - Time Out Delhi Photo Exhibition

Parallel Cities - Time Out Delhi Photo Exhibition / Call for photo submission.

It’s no secret that despite their banal uniformity, malls are no longer just shopping centres, but social areas that are firmly integrated into Delhi’s cultural landscape. They’re not just places where you go for retail therapy, but for catching a rare documentary, cutting-edge art, talks, performances and of course, chit-chat and people-watching. 

Time Out Delhi, in collaboration with Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Goethe-Institut, Max Mueller Bhawan, invites professional and amateur photographers to submit photographs that capture the inside of a shopping mall. Twenty images will be selected for a forthcoming exhibition in early January, while eight of the best images will be published in Time Out Delhi. 

The Delhi exhibition is an extension of PARALLEL CITIES, a project curated by theatre professionals Stefan Kaegi and Lola Arias from Switzerland and Argentina respectively. The duo have previously worked with artists in cities such as Berlin, Buenos Aires, Warsaw and Zurich to devise interventions in public spaces for their Parallel Cities project. These interventions have included a radio ballet in malls, a walk through an installation composed of the biographies the invisible cleaning staff in hotel rooms, and a journey through the production line of a factory, with a focus on its workers. The curators will stage interventions with local performers in Delhi as well. Be a part of exploring these “parallel cities” and, next time you’re in a mall, start clicking away.

For information on the Parallel Cities project visit www.ciudadesparalelas.com. 
Exhibition dates: 10 - 12 January 2013
Venue: Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi 

Selected eight images will be published in the January issue of TIME OUT DELHI. 
Selected twenty images will be exhibited in the PARALLEL CITIES - TIME OUT DELHI PHOTO EXHIBITION 
Theme: The inside of a shopping mall. 
The images should offer different perspectives of the inside of a mall.Images should be illustrative, conceptual or offer a symbolic representation of the shopping mall. 
The publication looks forward to receiving images that showcase the photographer's unique interpretation of the subject.   

Manner of submission: 
Via e-mail: parallelcities.timeoutdelhi(at)gmail.com 
Specifications: low-res jpeg images / 200dpi.  
Hi-res images will be requested for if selected for the exhibition or for publishing.  
The submission should be accompanied by a few lines introducing the photographer and the image(s). 
Last date for submission: 25 December 2012 
Photographers of selected images will be notified via email. Time Out Delhi and Parallel Cities reserves the right to make the final selection.  
There is no fee provided for the images that are published or part of the exhibition.  
All images will be duly accredited. 

PROJECT PARALLEL CITIES (CIUDADES PARALELAS ): DELHI JANUARY 2013  
A project curated by Stefan Kaegi  and Lola Arias, PARALLEL CITIES invites artists to devise interventions in public spaces that exhibit parallel existences. Ubiquitous locations, like the mall and the library have been chosen in Delhi as observation stations for this urban intervention.  In Delhi the project is jointly presented by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan. PARALLEL CITIES is a coproduction between  HAU Berlin and Schauspielhaus Zürich, in collaboration with Goethe-Institute Warschau, Teatr Nowy and the foundation of Teatr Nowy. Commissioned by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council and Goethe Institut Buenos Aires. 

For more information: www.ciudadesparalelas.com/