CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2009 – Bachelors in Philosophy (Honours), St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
Awards/Fellowships/Honours
2018 – Finalist, New Discovery Award, Les Rencontres de la Photografie, Arles, France
2018 – Nominated, Mast Foundation for Photography Grant (result awaited)
2018 – Nominated, Sovereign Asian Art Prize (result awaited)
2017 – Tata Trust Grant to pursue a long-term documentation project.
2016 – Ink Fellowship for book making and photo-documentation.
2016 – Nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass
2015 – Nominated for the Prix Pictet Award
2014 – Foto Visura Spotlight Grant for the artist book ‘This World of Dew’
2014 – Listed amongst India’s ten best contemporary photographers by Culture Trip, UK
(http://theculturetrip.com/asia/india/articles/india-s-10-best-contemporary-photographers-you-should-know/)
2013 – Neel Dongre Award in Photography, supported by the India Photo Archive Foundation
2013 – Oslo University College Fellowship to participate & showcase work at Chobi Mela VII
2011 – India Habitat Centre Fellowship For Photography for the series ‘Elegy for the Unsung Cubicle’
Books
2015 – ‘This World of Dew’, an artist book published by PHOTOINK, Delhi
2015 – ‘Voices and Images’, an anthology to celebrate a decade of the India Habitat Centre Fellowship for Photography, published by Penguin Random House (contributing artist, winner of the fellowship in 2011)
Exhibitions (Selected)
2018 – Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
2018 – ‘People You May Know’ at Les Rencontres de la Photografie, Arles, France
2018 – ‘There are Things I call Home’ at FotoFest 2018 Biennale, Houston, USA
2018 – ‘This World of Dew’, Asia House, London
2018 – ‘Intimate Documents’, Serendipity Arts Festival, India
2017 – ‘Another life, another time, another death’ at ‘Odds & Ends’, GALLERYSKE
2017 – ‘This World of Dew’ at GALLERYSKE
2017 – ‘This World of Dew’ & ‘There are things I call home’ at C-13, supported by FICA
2016 – ‘This World of Dew’, Parc Des Ateliers (Photo book exhibition), Les Recontres de la Photographie, Arles
2016 – ‘This World of Dew’, Benaki Museum (photo book exhibition), Athens Photo Festival
2015 – ‘Promise of Beauty’, PHOTOINK, Delhi
2014 – Foto Visura Spotlight 2014, Brisbane Power House Arts, Brisbane, Australia
2014 – Foto Visura Projection, Month of Photography, Los Angeles, USA
2013 – ‘Elegy for the Unsung Cubicle’, Delhi Photo Festival
2013 – 'The Unknown Citizen', United Art Fair, Delhi
2013 – 'The Unknown Citizen' at Sarai Reader 09: Episode 3, Devi Art Foundation
2013 – Chobi Mela VII, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2012 – ‘Apna Ghar’, Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi
2012 – ‘Trespass’, Max Mueller Bhavan, Delhi (supported by Pix Quarterly & The Japan Foundation)
Published Works (Selected)
2018 – ‘People You May Know’, Fisheye Magazine
2018 – ‘People You May Know’, India Today
2017 – ‘There are things I call home’, Reader’s Digest
2016 – ‘This World of Dew’, The Indian Express (Sunday Edition)
2016 – ‘Promise of Beauty’, Wall Art Magazine
2015 – ‘This World of Dew’ & ‘Promise of Beauty’, Creative Image Magazine
2014 – ‘There are things I call home’, Feature Shoot
2014 – ‘There are things I call home’, Boston Coffee House
2013 – 'The Unknown Citizen', Sarai Reader 09: Projections
2013 – 'The Unknown Citizen', The Wall Street Journal Blog