{"id":774,"date":"2015-04-11T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=774"},"modified":"2015-04-11T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T11:32:53","slug":"tiane-doan-na-champassak-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"Tiane Doan na Champassak: Kolkata"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-775\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"ttp:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=774\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-775 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tiane.jpg\" alt=\"Tiane Doan Na Champassak\" width=\"1000\" height=\"686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tiane.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tiane-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tiane-199x137.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiane Doan Na Champassak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">&#8222;Kolkata&#8220; by\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.champassak.com\/fr\/accueil.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=598145043\">Tiane Doan Na Champassak<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Limited edition of 500 copies &#8211; numbered and signed by the artist 152 pages 22 x 30cm available to order on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.editionsbessard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.editionsbessard.com\/<\/a>\u00a0Price 75\u20ac<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">My uncle, Tha\u00ef Doan na Champassak, published Ancestral Voices by Collins \u2013 London in 1956 and began his autobiography with this sentence. Mobilised in Algiers during the Second World War, he was sent to China as a trained parachutist in charge of a secret mission destined for clandestine entry into Indochina, then occupied by the Japanese. This extraordinary story has its beginnings in Calcutta, the starting point for his mission to Chungking. In the first chapter he gives a vivid description of the ex-capital of British India just four years before independence.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tiane2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-777\" src=\"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tiane2.jpg\" alt=\"Tiane Doan na Champassak\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tiane2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tiane2-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tiane2-199x139.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tiane Doan na Champassak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Having travelled frequently to India since 1996 it never occurred to me that Kolkata (formerly the anglicised name Calcutta) would inspire me to produce a body of work focused on its street life and I owe it to my uncle for giving me that desire. In fact it is in the streets of Kolkata that I find the most absolute representation of Indian reality. It is also the only city which holds such an intense concentration of extremes; quiet and loud, rich and poor, clean and dirty, modern and old, beautiful and ugly, past and present. This continuous duality has become my leitmotiv and is the reason I deliberately chose to focus on its street life in order to best represent the chaos of this huge megalopolis of over fifteen million inhabitants. (by\u00a0Tiane Doan na Champassak)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editionsbessard.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; color: #808080;\">http:\/\/www.editionsbessard.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8222;Kolkata&#8220; by\u00a0Tiane Doan Na Champassak\u00a0&#8211; Limited edition of 500 copies &#8211; numbered and signed by the artist 152 pages 22 x 30cm available to order on\u00a0http:\/\/www.editionsbessard.com\/\u00a0Price 75\u20ac My uncle, Tha\u00ef Doan na Champassak, published Ancestral Voices by Collins \u2013 London in 1956 and began his autobiography with this sentence. 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