When I started to live in the graveyard, my own blood family thought I was crazy and admitted me to the mental asylum. I came here because I could not bear the false glamor of city life. I hated the pretense that people put on, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

When I started to live in the graveyard, my own blood family thought I was crazy and admitted me to the mental asylum. I came here because I could not bear the false glamor of city life. I hated the pretense that people put on, from the series "Myself Mona Ahmed"

Dayanita Singh

1998, printed 2008

Accession Number

221950

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