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Turning the camera on Bollywood
at the Immigration Museum
An international photographic exhibition on show for the first and only time in Australia at the Immigration Museum offers a sneak peek behind the scenes of the world’s largest film industry.
Bollywood Dreams, an exhibition by New York based photographer Jonathan Torgovnik, turns the camera on India’s massive film industry, giving exclusive insights into the culture and stories behind the clapper-board.
Bollywood Dreams includes 44 original colour photographs and documentary film footage revealing:
· The making of Bollywood films and on-set action.
· The Indian experience of going to the movies.
· Actors and their characters.
· India’s touring tent cinemas (as pictured above middle).
Beginning his career as a photographer in the Israeli Army, Jonathan Torgovnik has since had photographs published internationally in magazines including Newsweek, GEO, Marie Claire and the Sunday Times Magazine (London). Jonathan’s award-winning photographs have been included in numerous exhibitions in the US and Europe, and also have been collected by institutions including the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris.
More About Bollywood Cinema:
Bollywood’s huge production of films is aimed predominantly at the more than 500 million Indians under the age of 25. The primary audience is young men.
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