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For a while, every minute of her
day was documented by the media -
each detail of hers was lapped up
eagerly, by waiting TV
cameras...she made waves around
the world and for all the wrong
reasons!!
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This was in the late 80's, when she was
linked with a British member of Parliament, a
leading Tory MP, and when the incident
exploded into a sex-scandal of preposterous
proportions. Pamela is reported to have said
that her story if told in full, could bring
down the government. That was the period when
a newspaper anywhere in the world carried her
picture and snide remarks to go with it! She
was a swinging socialite with a growing
reputation for unpleasant things - so much so,
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Pamela
Singh (Bordes) was Shyam's one of the high-profile
client.
She met Shyam in Jaipur (India), in
1998. She gifted him the book "Jawahar Lal
Nehru - An Autobiography",
published from London, in
appreciation of his help in her future
programming.
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The "right touch" got her into the right places and Pamela confidently strode the length and breadth of the House of Commons with a Commons security pass to work as a research assistant for the Dover MP, David Shaw with the help of fellow Tory MP, Henry Bellingham.
From her hunting ground in UK where the femme fatale claimed yet another victim in Carlos Moynihan, the UK sports minister, Bordes swung further to connect with revolutionary Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi's closest aides, Ahmed Gadaff Al Daim jet setting often to the Libyan capital, Tripoli in a private jet.
With Daim by her side, Paris was not too far where the duo wined and dined at the most luxurious and expensive hotels.
Soon her social circle included arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and the Emir of Qatar. It was during one of her tours to Paris, she met her boyfriend, Henri Bordes, later to become her husband. Bordes was a convicted arms dealer. The couple later split.
Unable to stomach all this after a while, Pamela
went into hibernation - deep and long.
When she emerged, it was as Pamela Singh - the professional photographer.
Today, she is better known as
a photographer, more sober and with greater substance to her character.
Born in Karnal, Haryana, Pamela Singh Choudhary was the daughter of an army officer killed in the India-China war. She received her education in Maharani Gayatri Devi School where she had her first brush with controversy in Class X. |
She went on to win the Miss India title which is her most memorable moment!
"...when I won the Miss India crown! Bizarre as it may sound, it was so unexpected that I was just stunned! There were so many other girls who were far taller, more beautiful and more elegant!"… |
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She describes her wild days in her own words, thus: “Sometimes I made really bad decisions, trusted people who let me down. I can do without hassles in my life. I'm not going to turn round and say, 'Oh, every experience enriched me', or any such cliché. I honestly wish I hadn't met certain people. The accident with the press was horrible…”
All this could have made a normal person insane. What makes her unique is her strength and tenacity.
In spite of all these mistakes and humiliation, she didn’t lose her will to live. She moved on - out of the dark shadows into a better life! |
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Pamella
Singh (Bordes) was Shyam's one of the high-profile
client. She met Shyam in Jaipur (India), in
1998. She gifted him the book "Jawahar Lal
Nehru - An Autobiography",
published from London, in
appreciation of his help in her
future programming. |
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Here-in-below
is the latest profile
information provided by
Pamela herself to Shyam
through
email
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Pamela Singh is a well known photographer and artist of international repute. She studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York, USA, The American College in Paris, France and the International Centre of Photography, New York, USA. She started working in the dark room at the age of 13 experimenting with old negatives. She took pictures much later on and initially worked as a photojournalist in Africa, Southeast Asia and India. Her work was distributed by Gamma Press Photos and was published in newspapers and magazines like The Independent of London, The Sunday Times, Marie Claire, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Paris Match and Photo.While in Africa she also made wildlife documentaries on 16mm film, and later photographed the civil unrest of the continent. After leaving Africa she moved to New York and worked only in black-and-white photography for several years. Her work featured in India: A celebration of independence organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA in 1997 and accompanied by a catalogue and essay by Victor Anant, published by Aperture, New York, USA. This exhibition traveled worldwide. The same year her work appeared in a group show titled Black and White sponsored by the Ford Foundation.
In 2003 she adopted a new style of work mostly self portraits using mixed media in which the work was photographed and hand painted, leading to a solo exhibition at Admit One Gallery, New York. She simultaneously opened with Sepia International Gallery, New York, showing her portfolio from Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Her work led to outstanding reviews in The New York Times for both bodies of work. She has also shown her work in shows at The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts, Auckland Museum of Art, The Daimler Contemporary, Germany, and Naturemorte, New Delhi. |
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