Ananya Gautam

Ananya Gautam is a visual artist who investigates the architecture of the self through photography and video performance. Her practice unravels familial threads to explore how memory, both lived and latent, shapes our understanding of home and ecology. By examining the intersections of “being” and “belonging,” she tries to create a space where the personal becomes a universal inquiry into human presence. A 2026 graduate of the National Institute of Design with a Masters in Photography Design, Ananya has been recognized as a curatorial fellow with Edinburgh Printmakers and Flow India. Her latest project is currently on view at the Students’ Kochi Biennale.

Dilpreet Bhullar

As an editor-writer, Dilpreet Bhullar’s work lies at the intersection of visual culture, decolonisation and curation. With an MPhil from the University of Delhi in Comparative Literature, she has been the recipient of the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Fellowship at Columbia University, New York and International Center For Advocates Against Discrimination Fellowship, New York. Her essays on identity politics, memory studies and visual sociology are frequently published globally. In her long-standing role as the associate editor at India Habitat Centre she co-edited the books Third Eye: Photography and Ways of Seeing (Speaking Tiger, 2019) and Voices and Images (Penguin Random House, 2015). She has served as a jury for the Art Writers’ Award by TAKE on Art and ProHelvetia titled. She is co-founder of Dastavez Collective: an initiative to encourage a conversation beyond the official registration points of history to arrive at the documentation of subversive voices. She is currently the managing editor of TAKE on Art and shuttles between New Delhi and Mumbai, India.

Ita Mehrotra

Ita Mehrotra is a visual artist, researcher and educator based out of New Delhi. She creates graphic narratives, and illustrated text often with a focus on citizenship, peoples movements and memory keeping from a feminist lens. Her graphic books include Uprooted, A Graphic Account of the Struggle for Forest Rights (Westland Books, 2025) and Shaheen Bagh, A Graphic Recollection (Yoda Press, 2021). Her work has been published and exhibited widely over the past decade, with Zubaan Books, Goethe Institute Delhi and Bangalore, Adastra Comix, The Wire, Scroll, Fumetto Festival Luzern, Khoj Artists Association, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art among others. Ita leads visual art programmes with rural schools and libraries across India and has led programmes with Aagaaz Theater Trust (Nizammudin Basti), The Community Libraries Project (Khirki village), Loka School (Bihar) among others. She has been visiting faculty at Ashoka University since 2021, teaching courses in community arts practices and graphic non-fiction.

Kush Kukreja

Kush Kukreja is a visual artist whose practice works across alternate historic photographic processes, material substrates, and digital mediation. He holds an M.Des in Photography Design from the National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar. His work examines the layered narratives embedded in land, image-making, and colonial history, probing the politics of representation at the intersection of fictionality and materiality. Working with substances such as tapioca bioplastics, river water, and stimuli-responsive polymers, he develops systems in which materials carry and transmit environmental and historical memory across both physical and digital registers. Collaboration functions in his practice not as a supplementary method but as a conceptual position, shifting the photographic encounter from extraction toward shared meaning-making.

Nidhi Khurana

Nidhi Khurana is an Indian artist, researcher and educator based in New Delhi. She holds a Master’s degree in Art from the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. Her practice has been supported by numerous international residencies and grants, including programmes with the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Schloss Balmoral in Germany, Central European University in Budapest and research collaborations with institutions such as the British Museum (EMKP) and Newcastle University.

Working across drawing, textiles, prints, artist books and sculpture, Nidhi’s practice reflects on the relationship between the human and the natural environment. Her work is research-led and material-driven, often shaped through long-term fieldwork, collaboration and observation. Through layered processes and tactile forms, she explores ideas of ecology, memory and place, allowing materials and making to guide meaning.

Urna Sinha

Ananya Gautam is a visual artist who investigates the architecture of the self through photography and video performance. Her practice unravels familial threads to explore how memory, both lived and latent, shapes our understanding of home and ecology. By examining the intersections of “being” and “belonging,” she tries to create a space where the personal becomes a universal inquiry into human presence. A 2026 graduate of the National Institute of Design with a Masters in Photography Design, Ananya has been recognized as a curatorial fellow with Edinburgh Printmakers and Flow India. Her latest project is currently on view at the Students’ Kochi Biennale.

Yask Desai

Yask Desai is an independent visual artist of Indian and Australian heritage whose practice is based in photography and utilises video, archives, and text. Working across India, Australia and sometimes more broadly, Desai’s work is deeply invested in examining questions of place, belonging, and the construction of individual and collective identity. His interdisciplinary approach often blends personal narrative with broader historical and social inquiry, allowing him to interrogate the intersections between lived experience, memory, and political structures. Through a combination of visual storytelling and research-based methodology, Desai explores how imagery shapes and reflects cultural identity, particularly in the context of postcolonial histories. His projects draw from archival material, oral histories, and expanded documentary practices to uncover overlooked narratives, trace cultural continuities, and challenge dominant representations. In doing so, Desai positions his work as both a personal exploration and a political act, one that seeks to reframe how identity is visualised and remembered across time and place.