When Chaman took Ayesha from me, I could not bear the pain, so I would go to the graveyard to tell my pain to the dead people and my only friend Dayanita who liked the old Hindi film songs that I sang for her, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

When Chaman took Ayesha from me, I could not bear the pain, so I would go to the graveyard to tell my pain to the dead people and my only friend Dayanita who liked the old Hindi film songs that I sang for her, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh

1998, printed 2008

Accession Number

221951

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

30.5 × 45.7 cm (12 × 18 in., image); 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in., paper)

Classification

photograph

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Photography Associates and Contemporary Art Discretionary Funds