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Image courtesy: Dipanwita Saha
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Image courtesy: Dipanwita Saha
Image courtesy: Dipanwita Saha
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What do you do with your life once you get your final degree from the University ? Especially when you come from a middle-class family, being the only child ? You should run behind the best possible job, settle down and follow everyone else. Be like others ! But there were other realities too. I was born in India, a country of unjust, extreme poverty, which is class and cast divided, a regional superpower, having a racist religious party in power. The secular India that my grandparents used to talk about was long gone by the time I had my first cigarette. I remember the December nights of 2014- when I had the inner battle going on in my soul. I had to be like others, or I had to find a way to live a ‘bigger’ life. I chose the latter one I became a photographer.
My art practice as a photographer has persistently engaged with the socio-ecological impacts of industrial practices on marginalized communities and the repercussions of climate change on biodiversity. My work seeks to explore the multifarious dynamics of geological exploitation and its relation to larger problems of cultural ecosystems and social discrimination in India.
Currently I'm working with BLINK Media as a consulting Photo Editor.
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➢ Exhibitions
2023 - Death Valley" - Photo London
2023 - "Death Valley" - Vannam Dalit History Month Photo Exhibition -2023
2019 - “Death Valley” - ‘Polyphony International Polyphony Photo Festival’, Kolkata
2018 - “Death Valley” - ‘Jawaharlal Nehru University’, New Delhi
2017 - “Death Valley” - ‘Just another Photo Festival’, Kolkata
➢ Grant | Awards | Fellowship2023 - Selected at Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2023, as Mentee of Maggie Steber. Organised by Agency VII and PhotoWings
2022- Earth Journalism Network Asia-Pacific Project fellowship
2020 – Ian Parry commended award
2019 - Photography Fellowship by “Water Aid – India”
2018 - Social Documentary Photography Grant by ‘Sri Aurobindo Center for Arts and Communications &
Murth Nayak Foundation’, New Delhi2018 - Documentary Photography Award by ‘International Academic Forum’, Japan
➢ Publications2023 - Solar pumps offer financial relief to West Bengal farmers, but growth is slow - Mongabay India
2022- The reality of saving young mangroves in the Sundarbans - Mongabay India
2022- How the Sundarbans missed an opportunity to harness solar energy - Mongabay India
2021- In anticipation of India’s largest coal mining project - Mongabay India
2020- In the dark world of white clay - Mongabay India
2020- India Water Portal
2020- India Water Portal
2020- India Water Portal
2019 - Classic Imaging [Print]
2018 - People's archive of rural India
2018 - BBC India
2018 - The Hindu, Times of India, Hindustan Times [Print]
➢ Education2013- Diploma in Photography from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math
2015- Bachelor in Commerce [ Hons.] from Burdwan University, India
2016- Diploma in Graphic Design from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math
2017- International Student Exchange Program, RKM Vidyamandira And Counter Foto, Dhaka
2019- Professional Photography Program, Counter Foto, Dhaka