The co-founder of the Delhi Photo Festival is a man who has done it all, or at least most of it all. In the early years of his career, he sold calculators in Chawri Bazar, checked garments in a Faridabad factory and cleared tables as a busboy in an Upper Eastside bar in New York. […]
A scholar on folk and ritual arts of India, cultural historian and museologist, Jyotindra Jain was the director of the National Crafts Museum, New Delhi, member secretary and Professor (Cultural Archives), at Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), New Delhi, and also Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru […]
Manjari Nirula has been instrumental in reviving languishing crafts, the marketing of craft products and the participation of craft-persons in regional and international fairs (Santa Fe Folk Art Market, California Gift Show, Maison & Objet). She has also helped publish monographs on artisans. The vice-president of World Crafts Council Asia-Pacific Region and the Crafts Council […]
A photojournalist and a self-taught photographer, Prashant Panjiar works independently focussing on reportage, editorial and documentary photography. A photo editor and curator, Prashant has served on the jury of the World Press Photo Awards, the China International Press Photo Competition, Indian Express Press Photo Awards and the National Foundation of India’s annual photography fellowship. He […]
A man who dons many hats – a poet, cultural theorist and curator. A seminal voice in Indian art criticism, Ranjit Hoskote has been pivotal to shaping contemporary art discourse in India, and in registering multiple cultural issues, artistic domains, and moments of history. In his role as an art critic, Ranjit has authored a […]
The co-founder and secretary of the Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF), Riyas Komu is a multi-media artist and an activist working towards encouraging art education and developing art infrastructure in India. His critically acclaimed political works have been exhibited extensively in India and abroad, which include several key works that focus specially on the political and […]
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