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Zarina Bhimji

Ugandan Indian photographer and film-maker based in London

Born
1 January 1963, Mbarara, Uganda (63)

Zarina Bhimji is a Ugandan Indian photographer, born in Mbarara, Uganda, in 1963, and now based in London. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007 and showed at Documenta 11 in 2002. Her photographs and films deal with memory, migration and the traces left in buildings and landscapes, often in East Africa and India. Her work is represented in the public collections of Tate, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

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