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Promotesh Das Pulak

Promotesh Das Pulak completed his MFA from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka. Originally trained as a painter, he uses diverse material drawing on other mediums of artistic expression, such as, video, image manipulation, photography, and installation. He is interested in exploring the dichotomy that lies between organic natural elements and combat equipments.… Read More »Promotesh Das Pulak

Baba Betar

Baba Betar is an art radio project, which also acts as a contemporary sound archive. It began in March 2020, after a countrywide lockdown was imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the audio productions of Baba Betar are text-dependent. Baba Betar would broadcast textual material to help people make sense of the pandemic… Read More »Baba Betar

Mara Züst – With Pathshala South Asian Media Institute

Mara Züst holds a diploma in Design (Visual Communication FH), a Masters in Art History with a minor in Modern History from the University of Zurich, and a degree in CAS Arts and International Cooperation from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). She works as an artist, mediator, author, and researcher, and is the… Read More »Mara Züst – With Pathshala South Asian Media Institute

Palash Bhattacharjee

Palash Bhattacharjee is based in Chattogram (Chittagong), Bangladesh. His experimental practice traverses between his personal experiences in relation to different human sensitivities and larger socio-political processes. His video installations are often developed from his performative work, including repetitive actions, gestures or footage that evoke a sense of absurdity. Such repetition upon subject matter that relates… Read More »Palash Bhattacharjee

Liz Fernando

Liz Fernando graduated from LCC Photography programme, University of Arts London. Fernando’s work mostly finds its roots in conceptual research. Her research enquires into the role of photography, highlighting different meanings that photography inhabits, often dealing with the notion of memory where the personal archive inhabits a fundamental space, aesthetically and practically. Her ideas surround… Read More »Liz Fernando

Imaad Majeed

Imaad Majeed is a poet and performance artist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and is the Director of ‘Kacha Kacha’, a poetry and performance art collective. Their poetry has been published in CITY: A Journal of South Asian Literature, as well as the local small-press chapbooks Lime Plain Tea and Annasi & Kadalagotu. Their poetry… Read More »Imaad Majeed

Reaz Rahman

Reaz is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Barisal, Bangladesh. He did his Bachelors and Masters on Modeling and Sculpture from the Fine Arts Faculty, Dhaka university, and an MA in Fine Art Conservation from Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Reaz has participated in many workshops, camps and group exhibitions, both at home and abroad. He has… Read More »Reaz Rahman

Efat Razowana Reya

Efat Razowana Reya is a visual artist from Chittagong, who is now based in Dhaka. She explores cultural differences between countries. Reya holds a BA and MA in Fine Arts in printmaking from the Dhaka University. She recently completed her education in New Media at the Yunnan Arts University, China. Her multidisciplinary art practices inspire… Read More »Efat Razowana Reya

Jewel A Rob

Jewel A Rob is a practicing visual artist and independent curator who lives in Dhaka. Jewel completed his MFA on drawing and painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Dhaka university. After completing his Masters, he began experimenting in the multi-disciplinary medium. Some of these projects occasionally consist of multiple works in a range of… Read More »Jewel A Rob

Yasmin Jahan Nupur

Yasmin Jahan Nupur was born in Chittagong in 1979. At present, her place of work is Narayanganj district in Dhaka division. Yasmin is a visual and performance artist whose work is influenced by the ecological and community driven aspects of life. Depicting human relationships from various points of view, her work explores class distinctions and… Read More »Yasmin Jahan Nupur

Uma Bista

Uma Bista is a photographer based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She works on visual narratives that focus on issues of gender inequality. She studied in the International Photography Program in the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Bangladesh. Uma was named in British Journal of Photography’s annual ‘Ones to Watch 2019.’ She is a Magnum Foundation Photography… Read More »Uma Bista

Thotkata

Long before the digital age, we met each other at political rallies, addas, or in academia. In 2011, when we came together as thotkata collective, blogs were already a vibrant site of resistance, but the language was largely anti-women, masculinist, homophobic, and often abusive. We were, and still are, outraged at the aggressive male chauvinism… Read More »Thotkata

Sumit Dayal

Born in 1981, I grew up in a quaint neighborhood of Kathmandu where my family continues to reside after they moved here from Kashmir in the late seventies. In 2004, I started off with a basic course in photography from Triveni Kala Sangam in New Delhi, interned at American photographer Thomas Kelly’s studio in Kathmandu… Read More »Sumit Dayal

Salma Abedin Prithi

Salma Abedin Prithi’s photographs explore the vulnerability and psychological struggles of common people. After graduating in photography from the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Prithi started making portraits of ordinary people with performative gestures in her pop-up studio at home. Her work, ‘Mundane’, is a combination of tableau-vivant and archival footages of newspapers exploring domestic… Read More »Salma Abedin Prithi

Saadul Islam

A self-taught musician turned sound artist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saadul Islam began experimenting with sound speakers from a very young age, trying to understand how sound and acoustics work and react in a physical space. His first instrument was the electric guitar, which sparked his interest with its synthetic spectrum of tonality, he started… Read More »Saadul Islam

Ronny Sen

Ronny Sen is a film director, writer, and photographer based in Calcutta. His debut feature film Cat Sticks world-premiered in the competition section at Slamdance in 2019, and won a Jury award. He has directed television documentaries for BBC. He started his career as a photographer and has made two artist books, Khmer Din (2013)… Read More »Ronny Sen

Nida Mehboob

Nida Mehboob is a photographer and filmmaker based in Lahore, Pakistan. She graduated as a pharmacist but left the field to pursue photography. She works on issues of social injustice ranging from religious to gender discrimination in Pakistan. She has attended several international workshops, has availed of fellowships including a year-long filmmaking workshop organised by… Read More »Nida Mehboob

Mahmud Hossain Opu

Born in old Dhaka, Mahmud Hossain Opu spent his early life in the bustling alleys of the old city. He completed his diploma in photojournalism from the Pathshala South Asian Media Institute. Opu has covered manmade disasters like the fire at Tazreen Fashions and the collapse of Rana Plaza, political crises stemming from the Hefazat-e-Islami… Read More »Mahmud Hossain Opu

Kushal Ray

Kushal Ray is a journalist-turned-photographer-painter. Born in Kolkata, he started his career with The Telegraph newspaper in 1982 as a sports journalist and took to photography while working for the paper. His first solo exhibition, titled ‘Everyday Life of an Exotic Land’, was on Ladakh, held in Piramal Gallery in Mumbai in 1998. His most… Read More »Kushal Ray

Karan Shrestha

Karan Shrestha works between Nepal and India. His practice incorporates drawings, sculpture, photography, text, film, and video that speak to the complex, entangled relations of Nepal’s recent history. His work examines and restructures notions of the ‘present’ through setting up encounters between physical landscapes and the mental maps of people and spaces. Shrestha’s projects are… Read More »Karan Shrestha

Bunu Dhungana

Bunu Dhungana uses photography as a medium to explore and question the world around her. She discovered photography after leaving the world of academia and research. However, her background in sociology informs her photographic work. A graduate of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, she is interested in questioning notions of gender and patriarchy. While her… Read More »Bunu Dhungana

Aishwarya Arumbakkam

Aishwarya Arumbakkam is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, filmmaking, and drawing. A deep interest in cultural narratives and identity has led Aishwarya to express herself artistically in mythological and personal stories. She employs subtlety, slowness and poetry as political gestures. She has exhibited her work in India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, China, and the UK.… Read More »Aishwarya Arumbakkam

Dilara Begum Jolly

Dilara Begum Jolly (b. 1960, Chittagong, Bangladesh) touches upon themes of gender, trauma and the female body. Initially trained as a painter, she has expanded her practice to include various media such as performance, video and sound. Jolly has developed a signature practice of needling on paper and, more recently, photographs – a painstaking process… Read More »Dilara Begum Jolly

Samari Chakma & Naeem Mohaiemen

Samari Chakma was born in Khagrachari, Bangladesh. After her Masters in General History at Eden College, she received her LLB law degree from World University of Bangladesh and was certified as a lawyer in 2013. She was the first Chakma female lawyer enrolled to hear cases at the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 2017. Samari’s legal… Read More »Samari Chakma & Naeem Mohaiemen