A mix of photobook, biography, autobiography and fiction, Myself Mona Ahmed, keeps renewing its importance in Dayanita Singh’s oeuvre because of the direction in which her work is evolving. It was a photojournalistic project that brought the eunuch, Mona Ahmed, into Dayanita’s life. But it was Mona’s own refusal to be the subject of such a project that pushed Dayanita into producing, eventually, a ‘visual novel’. Her book uses various kinds of text alongside the photographs to weave together photography and literature in the unfolding of a life, which is much more the story of an inward journey and a relationship than the documentary account of a different social reality and sexual identity.

176 pages, 135 tritone plates
8 x 6.8 in / 20.5 x 17.4 cm 
Hardcover with dust jacket
Published by: Scalo
Publication date: 2001
Condition: New
First edition