OPEN CALL | WORKSHOP
From Edit to Object : Photo Editing & Book Design Intensive
🗓️July 26-29
📍Offset Projects Studio, B85 Okhla Phase 2, New Delhi 110020
Application deadline: July 5th, 9:00 pm
From Edit to Object is a four-day intensive workshop that explores editing, sequencing, narrative structure, design, production, and circulation through the photobook. Bringing together perspectives from publishing, editing, design, and curatorial practice, the program offers participants an opportunity to develop projects nearing completion while engaging in critical conversations around the book as an artistic object.
Participants applying from outside Delhi will receive a travel stipend of INR 10,000.
A PhotoSouthAsia workshop in collaboration with Offset Projects | Collateral Partner : Aperture
NEW TITLES AT THE OFFSET BOOKSHOP
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
Wanted Beautiful Home Loving Girl
I Don’t Oil My Hair Anymore
Between Me and I
Framing Portraits, Binding Albums: Family Photographs in India
RECENT EVENTS
OPEN CALL : PARIS PHOTO APERTURE PHOTOBOOK AWARDS
Deadline: 4 September 2026
Apply here
The Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards are an annual celebration of the photobook’s enduring role within the narrative of photography. The awards recognize excellence in three major categories: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.
WORKSHOP : PAPER FOLD THREAD
29th – 30th April
Offset Studio, New Delhi
A two-day introduction to the tactile practice of bookbinding. The workshop guides participants through elementary bookbinding structures while exploring the fundamentals of folding, stitching, assembling, and binding books by hand.
WORKSHOP : Returning to the Family Album with Cheryl Mukerji
April 26th, Noon – 4pm
Offset Studio, Delhi
A workshop inviting participants to gather and write about or alongside family photographs, working with a specific set of images from personal family albums. Through readings, prompts, and shared writing time, different ways of entering a photograph through text were explored.
RESIDENCY : PhotoBook A.I.R. 2026
April – October, 2026
Offset Projects (india)
Halden Bookworks (norway)
The 2026 cohort of the PhotoBook A.I.R. program is begun! This years selected artists will spend the coming months developing an artist book while working closely with Anshika Varma as they shape their projects and experiment with the possibilities of the book as form.
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 