{"product_id":"15-years-of-perimeter-poster-anu-kumar-ghar","title":"PRE-ORDER: 15 Years of Perimeter Poster | Anu Kumar – Ghar","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerimeter turns 15 in 2026 and we're taking a trip down memory lane. The 15 Years of Perimeter poster series revisits a selection of Perimeter Editions titles published over the years – by Anu Kumar, Bartolomeo Celestino, Emily Ferretti, Travis MacDonald, and Ying Ang – many of which are no longer in print. Designed by our longtime creative collaborator (and friend) Narelle Brewer, the posters will be launched in store at Perimeter Books on Saturday, August 22 – details coming soon!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA1 poster (59.4 x 84.1 cm). Please note second image is a rough estimation of scale only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAnu Kumar – Ghar | Perimeter Editions 078\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIdeas around place and identity have never been unequivocal for Anu Kumar. When the young Melbourne-based photographer returned to to her birthplace of Kavi Nagar, India, for the first time since childhood at age twenty-one, she felt at sea. ‘I remember a feeling of discomfort, of not knowing my place or who I was in that context,’ she says. ‘I began taking photos as an exercise in learning how to be Indian.’ \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe term \u003c\/em\u003eGhar\u003cem\u003e, meaning ‘home’ in Hindi, doubles as the title of this, her debut book, and the broader outcome of her pursuit – one that is as much a new beginning as it is a homecoming. Shooting over a period of five years on a medium format camera, Kumar’s soft gaze meanders between the rooms and courtyards of the family home in Kavi Nagar, and out onto the neighbouring streets, sketching out the symbolic and aesthetic markers of a personal and cultural heritage. Formal portraits of her grandmother, aunts and uncles, echoing the traditional family album, give way to intimate scenes of daily tasks and quiet idleness – a thorough visual record to preserve intergenerational gestures and familial rituals that may otherwise linger in the undocumented everyday.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eKumar’s search for familial closeness was suddenly given a new sense of universality when the COVID-19 pandemic closed Australia’s international borders for almost two years. Edited and sequenced during this period, \u003c\/em\u003eGhar\u003cem\u003e also speaks to the enforced distance experienced by cross-cultural families, and the role of photographs as vessels for intimacy and connection. The series contemplates ‘home’ in all its multiplicities. A place, a sentiment, a responsibility; something at once inherently familiar and other times distant and incongruous. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perimeter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50269123805423,"sku":null,"price":85.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/3927\/files\/PE_POSTERS_15YEARS_AK_1000px.jpg?v=1785378889","url":"https:\/\/www.perimeterbooks.com\/products\/15-years-of-perimeter-poster-anu-kumar-ghar","provider":"Perimeter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}