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A little girl playing in Laxmi Chawl, a neighborhood of Dharavi. The little lightbulbs are put out for an upcoming neighborhood wedding, Mumbai

BENDIKSEN, Jonas

A little girl playing in Laxmi Chawl, a neighborhood of Dharavi. The little lightbulbs are put out for an upcoming neighborhood wedding, Mumbai
Image: © Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
For any licensing and reproduction use of this image, please contact Magnum Photos: licensingall@magnumphotos.com
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Written on the back of this work is: “The girl playing alone beneath wedding lights in Mumbai's Dharavi slum is not the closest or rawest image I've taken. But it is somehow a subtly tender and magical moment, where I feel like I drift into this little girl's frame of mind for a second. Whenever I feel, I somehow am there with that person, and I feel something that connects me. That is what I define as an intimate image, more than if the picture is really up close or in your face.” — Jonas Bendiksen


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Details


Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 55465

Creation/Production

BENDIKSEN, Jonas

Acquisition

Gift, 25/4/2017

Measurements

h(cm) image size:9.4
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:14
w(cm)
h(cm) paper size:15.2
w(cm) paper size:15.1

Techniques

Digital Pigment Print

Material

Paper

Location

In store
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  • Active In The 21St Century
  • Bendiksen Jonas
  • Childhood
  • Fine Art
  • Girl
  • Lamp (Domestic)
  • Photograph
  • Street
  • Works On Paper

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