中文简介：

对Anu Kumar来说，关于地点和身份的观念从来都不是明确的。21岁时，这位年轻的墨尔本摄影师自童年以来**次回到她的出生地印度Kavi Nagar，她感到非常茫然。她说：“我记得当时有一种不舒服的感觉，不知道自己的位置，也不知道自己在那个环境中是谁。于是我开始拍摄照片，学习如何成为印度人的一项练习。”

“Ghar”在印地语中是“家”的意思，既是Anu Kumar这本处女作的书名，也是她追求的更广泛的结果——它既是一个新的开始，也是一个归宿。Kumar用中画幅相机拍摄了五年，她柔和的目光在Kavi Nagar的家庭住宅的房间和庭院之间徘徊，并延伸到邻近的街道，勾勒出个人和文化遗产的象征和审美标志。她的祖母、姑姑和叔叔们的正式肖像，与传统的家庭相册相呼应，并与日常工作和安静闲暇的亲密场景交相辉映，这是一个完整的视觉记录，保存了代际间隐藏在日常中的肢体语言和家庭仪式。

由于COVID-19大流行病，澳大利亚的国际边界关闭了近两年，Kumar对家庭亲密感的探索突然被赋予了一种新的普遍性。Kumar在这一时期编辑和排序本书时也谈到了跨文化家庭经历的强制距离，以及照片作为亲密关系和联系的媒介作用。这个系列思考了“家”的所有多重性。它是一个地方、一份情感、一种责任、一种既熟悉又陌生的东西。

英文简介：

Ideas 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.'

The term Ghar, 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.

Kumar'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, Ghar 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.