Foy Nissen

Foy Nissen (b. 1931; d. 2018) was a writer and historian. From 1962 onwards, he took photographs of Mumbai, which were later shown at the A Solitary Moment: The Other India at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1982).

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