The Hotel Singh’s first camera

Singh’s first camera

Joshua Carroll

The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous

the picture or the process of image production

The Hotel Singh’s first cameraThe hotel in this book is both real and metaphorical, an actual establishment run by Tenzing Dakpas parents in Sikkim, Northeast India, and a prism through which he revisits his family history and place within it. Dakpas photos reveal the physical spaces of the hotel, its guest rooms, dining room, the familys cat on a flight of stairs; as well as signs of daily working life there: sheets hanging out to dry, clipping plants in the garden, his parents