2026 AT OFFSET
EXHIBITION : HONG KONG PHOTOBOOK DUMMY AWARDS
10th January – 15th February 2026
Offset Projects Studio, New Delhi
Opening : 4:30pm, 10th January 2026
We are kicking off the new year with a celebration of the book as a vessel of photographic stories with the shortlisted titles from the 2025 Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award. As the photobook evolves into a vital global medium for self-expression, these shortlisted works represent the very best in creative experimentation. From innovative tactile storytelling to bold visual leaps, these “dummies” offer a rare, hands-on look at how stories are being reshaped for a global audience. Join us as we dive into these works together.
EXHIBITION + BOOK SHOWCASE : SPARSEEING
4th December, 2025 – 4th January, 2026
Offset Projects Studio, New Delhi
6pm, 4th December 2025
Authors : Abhishek Basu | Joyona Medhi
We are happy to announce the photobook launch and archival exhibit of Sparseeing, a collaborative project by the winners of the 2022 Alkazi Foundation Photobook Grant. Presented by the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in association with Offset Projects in Delhi, Sparseeing, is an attempt to examine the polyphonic histories of community culture, specifically the Parsis, as illuminated through the archives of the Gazdar-Bharucha family.
With Alkazi Foundation for the Arts.
RECENT EVENTS
Chobimela : Building Books, Building Worlds
19 January 2025
Joyeeta Foundation, Dhaka
This panel brings together Anshika Varma, Nicolas Polli, and Shahria Sharmin in conversation with Vincent Hasselbach to reflect on photobooks as artistic, political, and relational spaces.
From independent publishing and design-led experimentation to long-term documentary projects finding form on the page, the discussion explores how books are built—not only as objects, but as worlds shaped by memory, collaboration, access, and care. The panelists will share their distinct approaches to making, publishing, and sustaining photobook practices across different contexts.
Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award Shortlist
10th Jan – 15th Feb
Offset Studio, Delhi
A celebration of the book as a vessel of photographic stories with the shortlisted titles from the 2025 Hong Kong Photobook Dummy Award.
As the photobook evolves into a vital global medium for self-expression, these shortlisted works represent the very best in creative experimentation. From innovative tactile storytelling to bold visual leaps, these “dummies” offer a rare, hands-on look at how stories are being reshaped for a global audience.
Sparseeing : Book Launch and Expansion
4th Dec ’24 – 4th Jan ’25 Offset Studio, Delhi
Photobook launch and archival exhibit of Sparseeing, a collaborative project by the winners of the 2022 Alkazi Foundation Photobook Grant.
Presented by the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in association with Offset Projects in Delhi, Sparseeing, is an attempt to examine the polyphonic histories of community culture, specifically the Parsis, as illuminated through the archives of the Gazdar-Bharucha family.
Soft Circulations : A Reading Room by Offset
29th July – 21st Sept
Tri Art and Culture, Kolkata
Experienced as a didactic reflection of and on various archives of the body — individual, social, and geographical — the exhibition presents bodies of work from 20 lens-based practitioners across 12 publications.
When explored, the space presents an invitation to cede to the collapse of time and rise of memory, to nurture stillness, and to create room for conversation with works of art.
Offset Projects is a publishing imprint, library and curatorial initiative. Founded in an ethos that values community building, we work with photography and book-making in South Asia to build spaces of shared inquiry.
“How can we work with the language of photography to help bring ideas and thoughts together…
to converse, research and understand the world we occupy?”
At its core, Offset views the book as a democratic and intimate space, one that resists exclusivity and invites reflection, experimentation, and exchange across borders of geography, discipline, and form.
Offset Publications
art murmur | guftgu
Editors: Anshika Varma and Mala Yamey
Design Direction : Anshika Varma
Design: Sanket Jadia
PUBLISHING SHIFTS : SOUTH ASIA
Nayantara Kakshapati, Rahaab Allana, Sharmini Pereira, Yogesh Maitreya.
THE ARTIST BOOK
Abdul Halik, Karachi LaJamia, Sohrab Hura.
NAVIGATING GLOBAL AUDIENCES
Arifur Rahman, Rashmi Devadasan, Saira Ansari, Sarasija Subramanian.
GUFTGU
Guft-gu:/ गुफ्तगू / گفتگو
Editor/Curator – Anshika Varma
Design : Anshika Varma, Ananya Khaitan, Kaashvi Kothari
Featuring : Adira Thekkuveettil, Diwas Raja K, Amarnath Praful, Arko Datto, Nandita Raman, Arun Vijai Mathavan, Nida Mehboob, Cheryl Mukherjee, Jaisingh Nageshwaran, Uma Bista
SISNU
Author – Soyeohang Rai
Edited and Curated by- Soyeohang Rai and Anshika Varma
Offset Projects 