Sarah Bassnett & Ishita Tiwary 2023
In Photography and Culture, Vol 16, No 3, 267-277, 2023.

 

This interview between film and media scholar Ishita Tiwary and art historian Sarah Bassnett was conducted over Zoom in February 2023. It focuses on Tiwary’s research on the migration of photographic and media technologies from China to India and Nepal in the period from the 1980s to the present. The discussion concentrates on how piracy and the illicit trade in goods such as cameras and mobile phones has shaped border cultures and access to consumer culture in the global south. This interview has been edited for clarity and length.