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SUMMARY:Laila Nahar | A Creative Journey
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to host the talented lens based artist and bookmaker
  Laila Nahar online in the Griffin Zoom Room on Tuesday September 9th
  at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific for a conversation about creativity and
  book making. Nahar's stunning hand crafted books are in the collection
  of the Griffin Museum library. She will discuss her path as a
  photographer\, and as a bookmaker and how her background shaped her
  artistic journey. Nahar will talk about her book-making process
  featuring a selection of books. 
 
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 About Laila Nahar - 
 
 Laila Nahar is a lens-based artist and book-maker in California\, USA.
  She lived her life in stark cultural contrast\, born and brought up in
  Bangladesh and eventually migrated to US in her late 20's for pursuing
  higher studies in Engineering. Laila recently retired from the
  high-tech industry after 24 years to devote full-time for the passion
  of her life as a photo and book artist. 
 
 Laila is primarily a self-taught photographer and book-artist
  exploring belonging\, memory\, cultural and collective identity. She
  took documentary classes with Eugene Richards\, Frank Espada\, Amy
  Arbus\, Keith Carter\, Nevada Wier and Emin Ozmen (Magnum). Lately\,
  she has become increasingly fascinated with hand-made photo book
  making and attended workshops with Elizabeth Avedon\, Void Impromptu
  (Publisher)\, Melanie McWhorter\, Center of Book Arts in NYC\, Yumi
  Goto and Susan Kae Grant. 
 
 Laila attended 2024 CODEX Book Art Fair with seven of her handmade
  Artist photobook in 2024. Her handmade Artist photobook 'Will you come
  to Rome with me?' selected for the DUMMY AWARD24 shortlist\; also top
  10 finalist in Athens Photo Festival 24. Her project 'Unfolding: Color
  of Life - Old Delhi' handmade artist photobook has been selected for
  the '13th Annual Self-Published PhotoBook Show' (Nov-Feb23) in Davis
  Orton Gallery and Griffin Museum of Photography. 'Unfolding' also
  selected as one of best 55 photobooks in 2022 by Women and non-binary
  photographers on TheLuupe.com. Recently\, it was selected as Honorable
  mention in Back on the Shelf FilterPhoto Book exhibition (Feb-Mar23)
  in Chicago. 'I Have Been Here Before' handmade photobook was selected
  for the '12th Annual Self-Published PhotoBook Show' in Davis Orton
  Gallery and Griffin Museum of Photography (Feb22). This had been
  shortlisted in the Independent Category Lucie Photo Book Prize 2022\;
  also\, was reviewed in PhotoBook Journal and Thinkingaboutphoto.
  'Living With The Tides' project is featured in the Inside-the-Outside
  magazine (Jan 2022). 
 
 Laila had solo exhibitions from 'Memories from Bangladesh' series in
  Steps Gallery (Arizona) and Nelson Gallery (California). Photographs
  from this series are in permanent collections of ASU and UCDavis
  photography Museums. Laila's handmade artist photo books are in
  permanent collections of several University libraries including The
  Fleet Library\, Rhode Island School of Design\, Boatwright Memorial
  Library\, University of Richmond\, Virginia\, University of Colorado
  Libraries\, Boulder and Museum of Fine Arts (Houston). Photographs by
  Laila has been displayed in several group exhibitions by Viewpoint
  Gallery\, UC Berkeley\, PH21\, PhotoPlace\, Griffin Museum of
  Photography\, curatedfridge.
LOCATION:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/nahar_artisttalk/
URL:https://griffinmuseum.org/event/nahar_artisttalk/
CATEGORIES:Cultural
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