Education
2009 Bachelors in Philosophy (Honours), St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.
Awards/Fellowships/Honours (Selected)
2022 Nominated, The Sovereign Asian Art Prize
2021 Production Grant from Olympus India to create a video piece on Indian Classical Music
2021 Nominated, Leica Oscar Barnack Award, Germany
2019 Artist in Residence, Centre for Documentary Studies (CDS), Duke University
2019 Finalist, Art Spectrum Awards: South Asia
2018 Finalist, New Discovery Award, Les Rencontres de la Photografie, Arles, France
2018 Vogue 40 under 40 artists to watch out for
2017 Tata Trust Grant to pursue a long-term documentation project.
2016 Ink Fellowship for book making and photo-documentation.
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
2011 India Habitat Centre Fellowship For Photography for the series ‘Elegy for the Unsung Cubicle’
Solo Exhibitions
2019 ‘This World of Dew & Other Works’, Rubenstein Arts Center, Duke University, USA
2018 ‘People You May Know’ at Les Rencontres de la Photografie, Arles, France
2018 ‘Artist Books (2013-18)’, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
2015 ‘Promise of Beauty’, PHOTOINK, Delhi
2014 'The Unknown Citizen', Press Club of India, Delhi
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2021 Artist book at Printed Matters Art Book Fair, New York
2020 Artist book at MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2020 ‘Speculations of a new World Order’, Shrine Empire, Delhi
2019 ‘View India’, Landskrona Museum, Sweden
2018 ‘There are Things I call Home’, FotoFest 2018 Biennale, Houston, USA
2018 ‘This World of Dew’, Asia House, London
2018 ‘Intimate Documents’, Serendipity Arts Festival, India
2017 ‘This World of Dew’ at GALLERYSKE, Bangalore
2017 ‘This World of Dew’ & ‘There are things I call home’ at C-13, supported by FICA, Delhi
2016 ‘This World of Dew’, Benaki Museum, Athens Photo Festival
2017 ‘This World of Dew’ at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai
2014 Foto Visura Spotlight 2014, Brisbane Power House Arts, Brisbane, Australia
2014 Foto Visura Projection, Month of Photography, Los Angeles, USA
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
Published Works (Selected)
2022 ‘Points of view: defining moments of photography in India’ & ‘The Archival Gaze: A timeline of photography in India 1840-2020’, a two volume book published by KNMA, India.
2022 ‘People You May Know’, Art India Magazine, 25th Anniversary Issue.
2022 ‘Screening the Mind’, New Indian Express
2021 Cover Photograph & Cover Story, Outlook India, 25th Anniversary Edition
2020 ‘Speculations on a New World Order’, The Telegraph
2020 ‘Speculations on a New World Order’, Architectural Digest
2019 ‘Artist Books (2013-18)’, New York Times
2019 ‘Artist Books (2013-18)’, The Hindu
2018 ‘People You May Know’, India Today
2018 ‘People You May Know’, Firstpost
2017 ‘There are things I call home’, Reader’s Digest
2016 ‘This World of Dew’, The Indian Express
2015 ‘This World of Dew’ & ‘Promise of Beauty’, Creative Image Magazine
2014 ‘There are things I call home’, Boston Coffee House
2013 'The Unknown Citizen', Sarai Reader 09