Nick Sethi - Khichdi (Kitchari)

Publisher: Dashwood Books
Year: 2018
Format: Softcover
Edition: 1st Edition, Limited edition 1,000 copies
Condition: Like New
Pages: 432

Taken over a 10 year period Khichdi (Kitchari) explores India’s rapidly changing identity, focusing on gender, technology, and the balance of traditional Indian and western culture. Materials are repurposed and recycled many times over. The locally sourced glossy paper contrasts with the roughness of the exposed spine and hand painted edges, allowing the physical object to exist somewhere between a mass-produced product and a hand-crafted object. Initially a sensory overload it unfolds into a complex web of ideas, involving the reader in a process of constant discovery and reexamination. Khichdi (Kitchari) is the first major monograph by Nick Sethi, an American-born photographer of Indian heritage living in New York City. Shortlisted for the 2018 Aperture/Paris Photo First Photobook Award.