Founded in 2010, Indian Memory Project
is a multiple awards winning visual-and-narrative based online archive that traces the history of the Indian Subcontinent through the medium of crowdsourced family photographs and narratives.
The personal photographs in the archive serve as visual evidence, and contextualise the categorised and key-worded narratives. These micro-stories reveal a fascinating and baffling collective history of a mightily diverse people, all of whom carry a memory of the land in them.
Indian Memory Project is a pioneer and inspiration to several prestigious cultural projects and institutions around the globe. The archive serves as a personal memory of the world – a sociological and photographic document, remembered and realised by its own people.
Founded in 2010, Indian Memory Project is a multiple awards winning visual-and-narrative based online archive that traces the history of the Indian Subcontinent through the medium of crowdsourced family photographs and narratives.
The personal photographs in the archive serve as visual evidence, contextualising the categorised and key-worded narratives. These micro-stories reveal a fascinating and baffling collective history of a mightily diverse people, all of whom carry a memory of the land in them.
Indian Memory Project is a pioneer and inspiration to several prestigious cultural projects and institutions around the globe. The archive is a personal memory of the world – a sociological and photographic document, remembered and realised by its own people.
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