OPEN CALL : Editing Workshop

12th- 14th December, 2025

Working with photographer Katrin Koenning, participants will approach their ongoing bodies of work to understand methodologies in narrative building through a guided exploration of editing and sequencing practices. 

OPEN CALL : Porfolio Review with Gabrielle Johnson

7th December, 2025

Offset Projects invites submissions for portfolio reviews with South Asia Editor for Reuters Pictures, Gabrielle Fonseca Johnson. This is an opportunity for photographers to receive individual feedback to help guide and refine their projects and pitch possible story ideas.

SPARSEEING
Abhishek Basu | Joyona Medhi

Exhibition | Book Launch
4th December 2025

Photobook launch and archival exhibit of Sparseeing, a collaborative project by the winners of the 2022 Alkazi Foundation Photobook Grant.

Blik!
PhotoBook Week
14th October 2025

BLIK! is a festival dedicated to the photographic book as a medium of artistic creation and storytelling. The name comes from the Danish word for gaze — a fitting expression to look closely at artist’s books, and other visual art publications. 

Photobook as Method: Connecting Asian Photobooks & Publishing Practices

13-16 October 2025
ImageImage, London

This reading room and exhibition gathers recent works by makers, publishers, and practitioners working in, around, and between China, Japan, India, Nepal, and beyond, offering reflections on the current state of photobook discourse across these regions. Through their respective practices, the makers and contributors behind these photobooks collectively form a rhizomatic entanglement that is the landscape of contemporary photography and publishing today.

Exhibition : What Makes a Photobook Sustainable?

September
Penumbra Foundation, 36 East 30th Street, New York

First published by Manual Editions in the UK, the book was launched to celebrate three years of research and conversations by the Sustainable Photobook Publishing network. The book is a compendium of forty case studies along with roundtable discussions, essays, quotes, and prompts that collectively seek to demystify the publishing process.

Soft Circulations : A Reading Room by Offset

29th July – 21st September
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.

The Photobook as a Site of World Building

10th August, 2025
Photo Bali

With Anshika Varma’s invitation to Island Perspective at Foto Bali we ask her to share her thoughts on the photobook as a powerful platform for storytelling, memory, activism, and authorship. Through real case studies and personal insight, this session explores how design, sequencing, and materiality shape meaning—and how the photobook becomes a living, breathing landscape for change.

OPEN CALL : Porfolio Review with Eric Le Brun

17th August 2025

Offset Projects invites submissions for portfolio reviews with publisher and curator Eric Le Brun. This is an opportunity for photographers to receive individual feedback to help guide and refine their projects.

OPEN CALL :
PhotoBook Sessions, Dummy Book Feedback

23rd – 24th July 2025

PhotoSouthAsia and Offset Projects invite submissions for a one-on-one photobook review with editor and curator Brendan Embser. This is an opportunity for photographers and artists working with the book as a form, offering individual, in-depth feedback to help guide and refine their projects.

IMAGE WORLDS : Approaching the Bicentennial of Photography

25th – 26th July 2025
Kamladevi Complex, IIC,
New Delhi

An international two-day symposium focusing on contemporary image production. Orienting towards the bicentennial of photography in 2026, Image Worlds offers an open-ended inquiry into diverse forms, frontiers and trajectories of lens-based media.

CRITICAL PARADIGMS
Led by Duncan Wooldridge and Lucy Soutter

01.03.25 : 2pm – 5:30pm
Offset Projects Studio, New Delhi

The session will focus on writing as a process of critical engagement. Drawing from existing bodies of works by the facilitators, we will introduce strategies for articulating ideas around photography, reflecting on the relationship between text and image.

ROW 770 : Angkor Photo Festival
Dennesse Victoria, Offset Projects, Vacilando

12 – 16 February 2025
Siem Reap, Cambodia

ROW 770 comes from alumni Anshika Varma (Offset Projects), Withit Chanthamarit (Vacilando Bookshop) and Dennese Victoria. This collaborative project is a community-organised photobook library, reading and communal space for everyone to share, discover, and engage with each other over photobooks we love, or can’t seem to get over, or forget.

CENTERING JOY
with Nandita Raman
09.01.25 : 11am – 1pm
Offset Projects Studio, New Delhi

This retreat is an invitation to discover who we are outside of the framework of production. Body movements and meditation will help us slowdown so we can sink into the parasympathetic state where all our body functions are at full capacity.

OFF THE SHELF : Curatorial Strategies for Art Publishing in Asia
08.01.25 : 6-7pm
Offset Projects Studio, New Delhi

Curator Ingrid Pui Yee Chu will present a talk on her curatorial and methodological approach to support art publishing practices in Asia.

PHOTOBOOK PROCESS
24.01.25 – 25.01.25

Over the course of 2 days, participants will engage in individual and collective sessions with book designer Ann Griffin, to look at approaches towards book building.

APPROACHING THE BOOK
 13.01.25 – 17.01.25

Over the course of 5 days, participants will understand how the grammar of editing, design and structure aligns with a photographic body of work through the book medium.

ART MURMUR X GUFTGU
OCT- DEC 2024

Art South Asia Project has collaborated with the Guftgu program by Offset Projects to present Art Murmur x Guftgu, a talk series offering in-depth understanding of the last two decades of movements in artist book making and art book publishing across South Asia. 

COLLABORATION:
ONLINE PRINT SALE
CLOSES: DECEMBER 15th, 2024
SHIPPING : JANUARY, 2025

A group of Majority World photographers, art and cultural workers and allies are coming together to organise this fundraiser to contribute to The Owneh Initiative’s SOLIDARITY FUND.

Queer Unschool South Asia
Nov 16 – Dec 14, 2024
Patan, Nepal

The program is envisioned and organised by curator and writer Aziz Sohail with Promona Sengupta and Anshika Varma as thought partners, and generously hosted by the independent art space Kaalo.EkSeyEk, in programming collaboration with photo.circle.

ZINE LAUNCH : Mahāsāgara

Vivek Vadoliya in conversation with Anshika Varma

Research Research
M-82, Second Floor
Greater Kailash II