It is easy to see why Joyona Medhi turns to cinema to describe her latest photobook and exhibition, Sparseeing. The launch of the book at the Cymroza Art Gallery last Friday marked the second leg of an archival work that was sparked by an incidental meeting of friends in 2016. “The book is part fiction, part truth. We had to put together bits and pieces from conversations with family, archival letters, and reports to contextualise the world around him,” the researcher adds.

The photobook