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Adam Broomberg and Rafael Gonzalez

Adam Broomberg is an artist and educator based in Berlin. Rafael Gonzalez is a photographer based in Berlin. Their collaborative ...

Alessandra Sanguinetti

Alessandra Sanguinetti (b. 1968) is an Argentine/American photographer based in both California and Buenos Aires. She has published six monographs: ...

Amak Mahmoodian

Amak Mahmoodian is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. She began her career as a research-based photographer in Iran in 2003. ...

Amanul Huq

Born on the banks of the Jamuna River in Kodda village, Sirajganj, in 1925, Amanul Huq emerged as one of ...

Asia Art Archive (ft. the archives of Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh)

Asia Art Archive (AAA) is an independent non-profit organisation in Hong Kong initiated in 2000 in response to the urgent ...

Bani Abidi

Bani Abidi was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and now works between Berlin and Karachi. She uses video, photography, drawings and ...

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation, and performance practices. Their practice ...

Belal Khaled

Belal Khaled is a Palestinian photographer and artist from Gaza. He grew up in refugee camps in Gaza, where his ...

Daniel Chatard

Daniel Chatard (*1996) is a German-French documentary photographer and visual researcher. He investigates themes revolving around power structures, collective identity, ...

Ernest Cole

Ernest Cole was a South African photographer known for his groundbreaking 1967 book “House of Bondage”. In the early 1960s, ...

Felipe Romero Beltrán

Felipe Romero Beltrán is a Colombian photographer based between Madrid, Spain, and Paris, France. His artistic endeavors are deeply rooted ...

Hoda Afshar

Hoda Afshar is a visual artist and documentary maker from Iran whose practice focuses on the intricate relationships between politics ...

Indre Serpytyte

Indre Serpytyte is a Lithuanian artist based in London whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, sculpture, installation, and painting. Her work ...

Karachi LaJamia

Karachi LaJamia was founded in 2015 by artists Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani as a nomadic space moving outside the ...

Kazi Sharowar Hussain and Gitartha Goswami

Kazi Sharowar Hussain is a poet, journalist, and cultural activist from Barpeta district, Assam India. He is a vocal advocate ...

Lisa Barnard

Lisa Barnard (*1967) is a British artist, researcher and teacher whose photographic practice addresses real events using traditional documentary modes, ...

Moonis Ahmad Shah

Moonis Ahmad is a visual artist from Kashmir working across installation, sculpture, sound, video, and programming. His practice explores the ...

Mosfiqur Rahman Johan

Mosfiqur Rahman Johan is an anthropologist and documentary photographer based in Bangladesh. His work explores humanitarian, environmental, and socio-political realities ...

Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz

Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz is a Sudanese photographer and curator based in Berlin. His work explores cities, relationality, and the organisation, ...

Myriam Boulos

Myriam Boulos is a photographer based in Lebanon who began photographing at sixteen to engage more closely with reality. Her ...

Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia is a filmmaker based in Mumbai. Her work explores memory, friendship, political unrest, and the textures of everyday ...

Rahima Gambo and Tatsuniya Artist Collective

Rahima Gambo is a visual artist based between London and Abuja. Her work explores the conceptual territories between photography, moving ...

Rena Effendi

Rena Effendi is a filmmaker, writer, an award-winning documentary photographer and author of two monographs “Pipe Dreams: A Chronicle of ...

Ri

Ri is a lens-based visual artist from Myanmar whose practice explores queer identity, intimacy, and belonging. Their work weaves together ...

Ritual Inhabitual

Based in Paris, Tito Gonzalez Garcia (France, 1977) and Florencia Grisanti (Chile, 1983) founded the shared artistic practice Ritual Inhabitual ...

Salma Abedin Prithi

Salma Abedin Prithi is a Bangladeshi photographer and visual artist whose practice explores memory, social violence, and the psychological weight ...

Samaa Emad

Samaa Emad, currently in Gaza is a visual artist whose dynamic and thought-provoking creations delve into the intersections of art, ...

Samar Abu Elouf

Samar Abu Elouf is a Palestinian freelance photojournalist. An award-winning journalist, Abu Elouf covers events where she lives, including stories ...

Sheida Soleimani

Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian-American artist, educator, and activist based in Providence, Rhode Island. The daughter of political refugees who ...

Sumi Anjuman

Sumi Anjuman’s artistic practice emerges from Bangladesh’s conservative Muslim landscape, shaped by personal encounters with gendered trauma and the unspoken ...

Syed Muhammad Zakir

Syed  Muhammad Zakir is a Dhaka‑based visual artist whose work reaches far beyond traditional gallery boundaries. Born in 1975 in Rangpur ...

Taysir Batniji

Taysir Batniji is a visual artist based in France, originally from Gaza. Working across photography, video, drawing, and installation, his ...

Thao Nguyen Phan

Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Trained as a painter, Phan is a multimedia artist whose practice ...

Walid Saddam

Walid Saddam is a visual artist and musician based in Bangladesh. His work and music explores themes such as environmental ...

About Us

Chobi Mela, the first festival of photography in Asia, is one of the most exciting ventures that Drik and Pathshala has initiated. The first Chobi Mela – International Festival of Photography was held in December 2000 – January 2001. It is the most demographically inclusive photo festival in the world and is held every two years in Dhaka.