EAN: 9783958297425

THE HOTEL - TENZING DAKPA KARTONIERT (TB)

The hotel in this book is both real and metaphorical  an actual establishment run by Tenzing
Dakpa's parents in Sikkim  Northeast India  and a prism through which he revisits his family
history and place within it. Dakpa's photos reveal the physical spaces of the hotel  its guest
rooms  dining room  the family's cat on a flight of stairs  as well as signs of daily working
life there: sheets hanging out to dry  clipping plants in the garden  his parents engaged in
various tasks. For the hotel is both public and private  a business and a home: a transient
place for guests who come and go and a residence that holds the memories of its owners and
projects their hopes.As the only member of his family not involved in running the hotel  Dakpa'
photos allow him to negotiate his migration and detachment from it  while intensely exploring
his family relationships. In Dakpa's words  one's sense of self is inseparable from the places
we create  both physically and in our minds: The nature of our official identity and place on
paper is adopted and the one which is in our memory is fragmented  revealed only in places we
once remember. The Hotel is the winner of the Singapore International Photography Festival
Photobook Award 2018.

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