Ravi Agarwal is an interdisciplinary artist, photographer, environmental campaigner, writer, and curator whose practice addresses the complex relationship between nature and its future through photography, video, text, and installation. He has exhibited at various biennales including Lahore(2024), Havana(2019), Yinchuan(2018), Kochi(2016), Sharjah(2013), and Documenta XI(2002).He has also curated large public art projects like Yamuna-Elbe(2009) and Embrace Our Rivers(2018). He curated New Natures, A terrible beauty is born(Goethe Institute, Mumbai, January 2022), and Imagined Documents at the Les Rencontres d’Arles(July 2022). He was the photography curator for Serendipity in 2017 and 2018 and Co-Convenor for the Bergen Assembly 2025(Norway).
Agarwal is also the founder of the environmental NGO Toxics Link(www.toxicslink.org) and The Shyama Foundation(www.sharedecologies.org) which supports initiatives at the intersection of art and ecology in India. Agarwal is a recipient of the UN Award for Chemical Safety and the Ashoka Fellowship.
Prashant Panjiar,a self-taught photographer,workedfull-timeas a photojournalistand editor in mainstream mediafrom 1984 to 2001. Sincethenhehas been workingindependentlyas a photographerspecializing in reportage, editorial anddocumentary photography, a photo editor and curator.He is the co-founder andmanaging trustee of Nazar Foundation that promotes lens-based art.His latestinitiative is the multi-disciplinary Goa Open Arts Festivaland the Goa Open ArtsCatalyst Grantthat he co-founded and launched in 2020.Hismore recent books areAmongst the Believers–The Kumbh Mela at Prayag(published by Arthshila Trusts,2024),Indianism(self-published 2023)andThat Which Is Unseen(published byNavajivan Trust, 2021).
As the co-founder of the Delhi Photo Festival, Panjiar led the curatorial teams of all three editions. He also curated the first edition of Sensorium a festival of Arts, Literature & Ideas for Sunaparanta, Goa Centre for the Arts; exhibitions for the first two editions of the Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa; and was project curator for Kanu’s Gandhi exhibition. Panjiar has also served on the jury of the World Press Photo Awards, the China International Press Photo Competition and POY(Pictures of the Year International).
Rahaab Allana is a Curator/Publisher at the AlkaziFoundation for the Arts, New Delhi. ACharles Wallace grant awardee and Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society(UK), he wasHonorary Research Associate at University College, London. He is thefounder of ASAP | art(Alternative South Asia Photography & Art), theregion’s first app for presentation anddiscussion of contemporary visual cultural production. He was Guest Editor for thethemed issueDelhi: Looking Out/LookingIn,‘Aperture 243’(Summer 2021).
He also acted as the editor ofUnframed: Discovering Image Practices in SouthAsia(HarperCollins Publishers India and Alkazi Foundation, 2023) andAnother Lens:Photography and the Emergence of Image Culture(Tulika Books and West Heavens,2024), which are two critical readers on lens-based practices and meta-histories of the image. He ison the Arts and Culture Committee, Asia Society(India Chapter). He was recently awarded the Officer of the Order of Arts and Lettersfrom the Government of France.
Dinesh Khanna has been working as a professional photographer formore than 35 years with an eclectic blend of commercial and personalwork. His personal work has been published as acclaimed books likeBazaarandLiving Faith.The latest books he has worked on are: Right of the Line–The President’s BodyguardandLife inRashtrapati Bhawanwhich have been commissioned by theRashtrapati Bhawan and Sahapedia.
Over the years his work has alsobeen shown in solo, and group shows in galleries from Delhi to NewYork and Varanasi to San Francisco.He has also done several assignments for the Incredible Indiacampaign, including the prestigious one for the Taj Mahal’s 350thanniversary.Dinesh is also a Managing Trustee of Nazar Foundation, and one of theCo-founders of the Delhi Photo Festival and also a PhotographyCurator for the first two editions of Serendipity Arts Festival. He hastaught Photography in various institutions like Ashoka University, TheOne School, Goa, Jamia Milia and MICA, Ahmedabad amongst others.He is a Director of the Dhrish Academy of Photography at the MuseoCamera, conductsPhotographycourses and workshops and was aVisual Consultant with Sahapedia.
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