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Photographer B. S. Shivaraju Documents the Lives of Unsung Heroes

Posted by on Friday, September 14, 2018 in Events, HART, Lectures, News, Vanderbilt University.

Cop-Shiva-1Named one of India’s top 15 rising artists, photographer B. S. Shivaraju (aka Cop Shiva) documents the complexity of rural and urban India through portraiture. He is fascinated with the idea of masquerade and the roles people play in public and private. His first professional project, “Being Gandhi,” reflects this interest in documenting the lives of unsung heroes.

Shivaraju will present a talk at 4:10 pm on Thursday, September 20, in Buttrick Hall 206 in conjunction with the exhibition On Being Gandhi: The Art and Politics of Seeing at the Leu Art Gallery in the Lila D. Bunch Library, Belmont University (opening September 28). One of Shivaraju’s most critically acclaimed projects, the exhibition features his photographs of Bagadehalli Basvaraju, a village schoolteacher who routinely impersonates Mahatma Gandhi. “This project has evolved to include a broader reach, which is to look at Gandhi’s ideals in contemporary India,” wrote Shivaraju.

His lecture at Vanderbilt is sponsored by the Departments of History, Political Science, Art, History of Art, Religious Studies, and Asian Studies.

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