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Revision as of 17:05, 14 January 2025 by Max Kandhola (talk | contribs) (editing text)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Max Kandhola (Peter Pupender Max Singh Kandhola) is a photographer and Associate Professor in photography at Nottingham Trent University Design & Digital Arts. Max's work have been published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Born 1962, Selly Oak, England, to Punjabi Sikh parents. Father born in Lahore (Punjab) before the partition of India and mother born in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. Parents migrated to England in 1956, settling first in Bradford and then Birmingham in the early 1960s.
Kandhola's photography explores cultural displacement, hybridity, and marginalised identities. It challenges dominant portrayals of race, gender, and social space, offering counter-narratives that disrupt hegemonic discourses and reclaim visibility for historically underrepresented groups, in considering Race, Representation, Identity and Difference (RRID). Kandhola has published a number of books including The Aura of Boxing (2014), Flatland A Landscape of Punjab (2007), Illustration of Life (2002), Autograph Monograph (1996).
Early life and education
Kandhola studied photography at Bournville College of Art, (Birmingham, England) under the guidance of John Hodgetts and completed his BA Hons Graphic Design (Photography) at University of Wolverhampton (Polytechnic 1991), under the tutelage of social documentary photographer Nick Hedges.
In his formative photography career Max worked from his studio in Digbeth, Birmingham. The studio provided a space to make work and architect his photographic practice attracting independent collectors, commissioners, and art buyers. From 1993- 2002 Kandhola shared a studio with contemporary Jewellery designer Sara Preisler gallery at the Custard Factory, and with further collaborations with fashion designers in opening the concept space The Goate Gallery (1992-1995) in central Birmingham due to the lack of Black and Asian representation within photography. During this period, the gallery also served as the central office for Birmingham's inaugural photography festival, an initiative realised in partnership with Ten-8 magazine, Birmingham City Council, and Arts Council England. Max was on the board of advisors for Seeing The Light and Rhubarb Rhubarb photography agency founded by the inspirational Rhonda Wilson MBE.
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