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In 1950, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru invited legendary French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier to embark on one of the greatest experiments in urban planning history: to build a new capital - Chandigarh, a city whose monumental modernism promised to free India from the fetters of colonial tradition. Six decades after its founding and on the eve of its becoming a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2016, photographer and Chandigarh resident Shaun Fynn was granted unprecedented access to turn his lens on Le Corbusier's city and capture what is rarely seen: the living metropolis behind the master plan. Fynn's captivating images of the city and its inhabitants reveal how the poetry of the architect's compositions has been shaped by the tumult of everyday life.



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Shaun Fynn

UK-born Shaun Fynn is a designer and photographer who resides in New York. A graduate of Central Saint Martins in London, he is the founder of StudioFYNN, a design and communication agency.Fynn's award-winning work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design in New York, the Chicago Athenaeum, and Weserburg in Bremen, Germany. It has also appeared in Fast Company, the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, Graphis, International Design Yearbook, and Repertorio del Design Italiano, 1950-2000.Fynn has been a visiting lecturer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai and ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles. He is currently adjunct faculty at Parsons School of Design in New York City. In 2015 he was nominated a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.



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