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Munem Wasif Named 2023 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography

Posted On:Monday, July 3rd, 2023 | by project88newsadmin

Following an international search, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University, is pleased to announce the selection of Munem Wasif as the 2023 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography. The fellowship provides a $50,000 stipend to begin or complete a proposed project followed by the publication of a book.

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Based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Munem Wasif is a photographer, mixed media artist, curator, and teacher. He will use his non-residential fellowship to work on Nil (নীল) (the Sanskrit for “indigo”), a photographic, archival, and mixed-media project he describes as a “layered narrative about the critical history of indigo in Bengal.”

More information available here: https://peabody.harvard.edu/news/munem-wasif-named-2023-robert-gardner-fellow-photography