Clubber Spotlight: Anisha Bedesha
For our next spotlight, we caught up with Dazed Clubber Anisha Bedesha, who recently threw her first exhibition 'Outside Looking In' with her Manchester-based collective showcasing work by ethnic minority and POC women and non binary photographers
To be "on the outside looking in" by definition means being excluded from a group, process, or opportunity, and feeling downhearted as a result. I have often felt this way in creative circles – I find that I rarely see women, non-binary or queer POC and minority people in the photography scene. I often don’t feel represented. My name’s Anisha and I am Punjabi Indian but born and raised in England. I have witnessed a lot of indifference and racism due to the colour of my skin in so many different areas of life. Photography is one of my favourite things and I want to stake some of my claim on it, as I feel that photography as a practice is heavily skewed away from minorities.
The photos presented here are a combimation of photos from the first exhibition with my collective OUTSIDE LOOKING IN along with photos of the exhibition itself.
A lot of my work has been focussed on the nightlife scene in Manchester, but I am wanting to expand that and make this collective more widely about culture and art. My goal for the collective is to allow people to be able to tell their own stories and to thrive in their own ways.
My preferred medium is film photography. I started about 10 years ago using rubbish disposable cameras and have now perfected the craft of the one-shot using film. After starting with photos of friends, my photography has now branched out and now I’m actually working events and taking portraits of people out and about. In the exhibition ‘Outside Looking In’ I chose to strip back and show what I originally started doing when it came to my photography.
I would like to thank the beautiful people that took part in the exhibition, @dapicnik @trnsrd and @gretaktaylor. I am taking submissions for people to post their work now that Out Looking In page is fully up and running!
Anisha’s personal work - @filmbyanisha
Anisha’s collective - @out.lookin.in
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