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Waswo X. Waswo
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Waswo X. Waswo (November 13, 1953), is a photographer and artist formerly most commonly associated with his chemical process sepia-toned photographs of India, but more recently with hand-colored portraits made at his studio in Udaipur, Rajasthan.[1][2] Waswo’s first major book, India Poems: The Photographs,[3] was in part a challenge to politically correct notions of the western artist's role in responding to Asia, and his work has been critiqued[4] in the light of cultural theories that stem from Edward Said and his book Orientalism. He has also produced a large body of self-referential paintings in collaboration with traditionally trained Rajasthani miniaturists R. Vijay, Chirag & Shankar Kumawat, and Dalpat Jingar