London Art Award Nomination Zarina Bhimji: '[Whitechapel Gallery exhibition] Elegiac in mood and very beautiful, the photographs are immaculately composed, with an acute sensitivity to the play of light across rooms and surfaces.'

Evening Standard: 'Elegiac in mood and very beautiful, the photographs are immaculately composed, with an acute sensitivity to the play of light across rooms and surfaces. This painterly quality gains its fullest expression in her films. Alongside brooding landscapes, Out of Blue (2002) focuses on those same bleak Ugandan interiors, which gain menace on film.'

Zarina Bhimji is of Indian descent, and left Uganda at the age of 11 in 1974 in the wake of the expulsions of Ugandan Asians by Idi Amin, and settle in the UK.

In 2003–2007, she travelled widely in India, East Africa and Zanzibar, studying legal documents and the stories of those who formed British power in those countries, carrying out interviews and taking photographs.

In 2007, she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize for photographs of Uganda. Their theme is the expulsion of Asians from the country by Idi Amin and the subsequent loss and grief caused. The photos were in exhibitions at Haunch of Venison gallery in London and Zurich. Her Turner Prize display includes a film, Waiting, which was shot in a sisal-processing factory. [Wikipedia]