"Some were searching for people they knew, other were trying to find themselves in the frames and a few were just absorbing the images for what they were – photographs that encapsulated mostly women in myriad moods. Dayanita Singh couldn't have hoped for a better response on the first day of her expansive solo exhibition, Ladies of Calcutta, that was inaugurated at Bose Pacia Gallery on Park Street on January 8"…
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"NOT often the women of Calcutta become the theme for photography exhibitions. Starting 8 January, Alliance Francaise du Bengale present India Photo Now'08 at Bose Pacia. Dayanita Singh's exhibition (Ladies of Calcutta) will be inaugurated by Amitav Ghose. India Photo Now'08 aim to promote photography in India. The objective is to give young photographers an opportunity to showcase their work"…
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"Dayanita Singh's Ladies of Calcutta (Bose Pacia, until February 9), in spite of the affectionate drollery of its title, is an exacting exhibition. It is mounted profusely an precisely. There are eight large photographs, hung as two triptychs and a diptych, and more than a hundred smaller prints on three white walls, from almost floor-level to a little above eye-level. They are all black and white images of extraordinary sharpness, framed in grey without any titles"…
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"After the crush and confusion at the opening of her exhibition Ladies of Calcutta at Bose Pacia gallery on Wednesday Opening, the next morning the photographer, known for her compositions with chairs and leads with depeopled spaces, for the book she created by urging the eunuch Mona to write about herself, for her intriguing photographs of Goa and her intimate and revealing portraits of Calcutta's ladies of leisure, was ready to talk on many things"…
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"Madam, yeh to sab antique pictures hain, ekdam black and white TV-ke zamane ki tarah," told a carpenter to Dayanita Singh, when she asked him to be careful with the photographs put up at Bose Pacia. That, for her, was the most candid response to her exhibition titled Ladies of Calcutta. For, Dayanita is on a quest to trace glimpses of a lost time. She talks about a line from Michael Ondaatje's poem Handwriting "All this we burned or traded for power and wealth…".
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