The Hotel Let’s See is a photo-novel

Let’s See is a photo-novel of Dayanita Singh’s earliest years as a photographer

The result is a narrative collage in which the boundary between the documentary and the staged becomes increasingly ambiguous

Tenko went on to become one of Sawatari’s most important photographic subjects

These books demonstrate a sophisticated relationship to narrative and sequence and offer a new understanding of the scope of Woodman’s engagement with the book form

Chief Editor: Wang Huan

The Hotel Let’s See is a photo-novelThe hotel in this book is both real and metaphorical, an actual establishment run by Tenzing Dakpas parents in Sikkim, Northeast India, and a prism through which he revisits his family history and place within it. Dakpas photos reveal the physical spaces of the hotel, its guest rooms, dining room, the familys cat on a flight of stairs; as well as signs of daily working life there: sheets hanging out to dry, clipping plants in the garden, his parents