As a student photographer, Dayanita Singh travelled during six winters, in the Eighties, with the musician, Zakir Hussain, and his peers, photographing them for a publication design project that became her first book in 1986. In the light of her later books, this early work shows how bringing together word and image - sequencing photographs with accompanying text into a book - had been her natural tendency from the very beginning of her life as an artist. 

"My work is rooted in the surreal and the fantastic. It is influence by my background in architecture, my interest in music, especially jazz, and my experience of various cultures, East and West. My intent is to produce images which evoke wonder, surprise and amusement." 

Japanese designer Ryoko Haraguchi returns to ARTISANS’. Her avant garde design integrates Indian weaving and stitch work with traditional Japanese dyeing techniques.