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SATISH   SHARMA                               email:  rotigraphy@gmail.com

      

The Residence,

Australian Embassy

Bansbari , Kathmandu

NEPAL            Tel:  0097-1 43701972

Worked as a freelance photojournalist for leading Indian magazines and

newspapers since 1975 and as documentary photographer for major

international institutions like UNICEF.

 Now an independent photographer, writer, .cultural critic, and curator who has published and exhibited internationally.

Exhibitions: 

One Man Shows:

Siddhartha Art Gallery, Kathmandu - September 2011

India Habitat Centre New Delhi – January 2007

Silkroad Photo Gallery, Tehran - November 2005  

"Australia: Portraying a Nation"

India International Centre and Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi - March 1999

Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath , Bangalore - September 1999

Lalit Kala Akademi, Chennai - October 1999

Birla Academy of Art and Culture , Kolkatta - November 1999

Nehru Centre, Mumbai - January 2000

Bangladesh Shilpikala Academy, Dhaka  - April 2000

DeConstructing the Politician:

Eicher Gallery, New Delhi – 1997 

Centre for Photography as a Fine Art, NCPA, Mumbai - 1990

Cholamandal Artists' Village, Cholamandal - 1987

Ashram Gallery, Pondicherry and Auroville - 1987

Sakshi Gallery, Madras - 1987  Art Heritage Gallery – 1986

Select Group Shows:

Separating Myth f rom Reality , -  Kathmandu - 2009

Second Fukuoka Asian Art Triennalle, Fukuoka Japan - 2002

Peter Beard Gallery, Netherlands   - New Delhi - 2000

Woman Goddess, British Council New Delhi - 2000 and ICAC- New York 2001

Boxwallahs, an Indo-Austrian Installation Project, New Delhi - 1999

The Edge of the Century, Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi - 1999

Black and White, an exhibition that toured India though 1997, USA in1998

Out of India, Queens Museum, New York - 1997

Project Punjab, National Gallery, New Delhi - 1995

Images and Words: Artists against Communalism, a SAHMAT exhibition that

toured India  and was shown in 27 towns and cities - 1991 and 1992

Artists Alert, Rabindra Bhavan, New Delhi - 1989

Working News Cameramens' Association Exhibition, AIFACS, New Delhi-1989

Pratibhimba an Exhibition of Indian Photography, Pushkin Museum, Moscow -

Festival of     India in the USSR - 1988

The Endless Wheel, an Exhibition of 16 Indian Photographers that traveled

through Germany, Switzerland and Sweden - 1987/1988

Exhititions Curated:

Street Dreams:  for the Shoreditch Foto Biennalle, London. The exhibition

travelled      through Europe from 1997 through 1999 and was shown in major

institutions like the    National Museum of Photography, Film and Television

in Bradford.

 Curated an exhibition of Indian Studio Portraits for Face to Face: an

Exhibition on Portraiture at the Netherlands Foto Instituit , Rotterdam

- 1997,

Space and Identity an exhibition on Indian studio photographs for Gallerie in der

Brotfabrik, Berlin   as part   of a series of exhibitions that looked at the

photographic construction of identity -1996

Curated 'Indian Studio Photography ' for Fotofeis - the Scottish

International Festival of Photography - 1995

Coordinated 'Project Punjab' for the Forum of Contemporary Photographers,

New Delhi - 1994

Curated the Indian Section of an exhibition on Family Snapshots from Germany

and India    at  the Photography Gallery of the Max Mueller Bhavan, New

Delhi - 1994

Curated an enlarged exhibition of Homai Vyarawalla's work for the Center of

Photography    as a Fine Art, NCPA Bombay - 1994

Curated the first retrospective exhibition of  Homai Vyarawalla , the first

woman photojournalist   in independent India at the Photography Gallery ,

Max Mueller Bhavan ,   New Delhi - 1993

PUBLICATIONS:

Photographic Books, Catalogues and Journals:

I I C  Quarterly: India International Centre Journal, New Delhi -2006

Visual Arts: The India Habitat Centre’s Art Journal, New Delhi –2006

Visual Arts: The India Habitat Centre’s Art Journal, New Delhi -2003

Imagined Workshop catalogue of 2nd Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka - 2002

Australia: Portraying a Nation, New Delhi -1999

Mappings: Shared histories... A fragile Self,  Eicher Gallery New Delhi -

1997

Street Dreams:  a book published by Booth Clibborn Editions, London – 1997

 'Die Konstrucktion Des Roames' catalogue published by Gallerie in der

Brotfabrik,            Berlin  - 1997

Fotofeis 95   a catalogue published by the Scottish International Festival

of Photography   Edinburgh - 1995

Taj Mahal   A travel book on Agra and Fatehpur Sikhri, published by the

Guidebook Company, Hong Kong - 1992

Images and Words - Artists Against Communalism published by Safdar Hashmi

Trust,

New Delhi - 1992

Actors, Pilgrims, Kings and Gods - the Ramlila of Ramnagar, with text by

Anuradha Kapur, published by Seagull Books, Calcutta

Artists Alert, published by SAHMAT, New Delhi -1989

Pratibhimb: Photography in India, published by the Festival of India in the

USSR - 1987

Das Endlose Rad, Photographie in India, published by Uniionsvertag Zurich

-1987

Art Heritage Catalogue - 1985/86 published by Art Heritage New Delhi - 1985

Writing On Photography:

Exhibition Catalogues:

India Awakens: Kunst der Gegenwart, Essl Museum  -2010

Essays for Australia: Portraying a Nation, catalogue printed by the

Australian High Commission, New Delhi - 1999

Mappings: Shared Histories... a fragile self, catalogue published by Eicher

Gallery, New Delhi- 1997/98

Introductory Essay for Street Dreams, a book /catalogue published by Booth

Clibborn Editions and the Shoreditch Foto Biennale, London -1997

Essay 'Rotigraphien' for Die Konstrucktion des Raumes, the catalogue

published by Gallerie in der Brotfabrik , Berlin- 1997

Essay "Hidden Histories: The Colonial Encounter" for  ' Shifting Focus-

Photography in India 1850-1900 " published by the British Council - 1997

Catalogue Essay for Sheba Chaachi’s photographic installation at the Max

Mueller Bhavan , New Delhi- 1994

Catalogue Essay for Raghu Rai's exhibition of photographs at the Max Mueller

Bhavan, New Delhi - 1994

Catalogue Essay for Homai Vyarawalla's exhibition of photographs at the Max

Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi - 1994

Catalogue Essay for the  Lalit Kala Akademi's 2nd Biennalle of Creative

Photography - New Delhi- 1993

Select articles on Photography:

Imperial Delhi: imagined, imaged iconicized, IIC Quarterly, New Delhi, 2006

Drishti: Of Photographic Perception and its Management, Visual Arts Journal

-   New Delhi, 2006

'Rotigraphy: Indian Street Photography', Art Asia Pacific no: 13 - Australia

  1997

Articles on Homai Vyarawalla and Sheba Chachhi, Photographers International

- Taiwan  – 1997

'A continuing circus of Prejudice' - full page review of Lindsay Hebbard's '

Cultural Portrait of India' an exhibition of photographs that toured the Us

as a celebration of 50 years of Independence,  The Economic Times , New

Delhi - 1995

Images of Imperialism', a look at how the India was framed by the Empire,

India Magazine, November 1995, New Delhi.

Rotigraphy: a vernacular Indian Vision, Cover Story for India Magazine,

September 1995, New Delhi.

'Form Minus Critique' review of Raghubir Singh's exhibition of his Bombay

Photographs,The Economic Times, 12 Feb 1995 - New Delhi.

'Dreams that Money can Buy '- a short essay on Popular Indian Photography,

Creative Camera - Dec/Jan 1994, London.

'Self and the Other' essay on Sheba Chhachhi's photograhic installation,

The Economic Times - 4th Dec 1994.

'Beyond the Margins of Vision' - review of Raghu Rai's Exhibition and book

on Delhi, The Economic Times - 30th Jan 1994.

'On Photography's Futile Dreams', review of exhibition by Pablo Bartholomew

in The Economic Times - 23rd Jan 1994.

'It Didn't quite Click, Critique of the IGNCA's exhibition of Raja Deen

Dayal;s photographs in The Economic Times - 16th Nov 1993.

'The Picture without the View’,  review of the Lalit Kala Akademi’s 2nd

Biennalle of Creative Indian Photography in The Economic Times - 25th Sept

1993.

'Honouring the "Mother" of all Indian Photographers' a tribute to Homai

Vyarawalla in The Economic Times - 12th Sept 1993.

'The Woman who Shot the Best of Them'   profile of Homai Vyarawalla –

  The Economic Times - 31st May 1993.

'Buried Images of Bigotry' Photographs and essay on the victims of the 1984

anti Sikh riots and photographic self-censorship, The Economic Times -28th

Nov 1992.

 Select Bibliography:

Prop Art, Seen- the Canon world of Photography no: 10, 1999, Amsterdam 1999

Rustom Bharucha, In the Name of the Secular, Oxford University Press,

New Delhi -1998

Geeti Sen, 'The Power of the Photograph' The Pioneer, New Delhi - 1997

Santawana Bhattacharaya, 'Framing the Framers’ The Indian Express - 1997

Santawana Bhattacharaya, 'Photo Identity' The Indian Express-1997

Arno Haijtema, 'Een roti voor een foto' de Volkskrant, Rotterdam -1997

Jahmarkt- Fotos als Spiegel der Kuiltur, Die Welt,Berlin -1996

Sadanand Menon, 'The Peeling Face of Politics’ The Economic Times- 1992

Sadanand Menon, 'Of Culture and Commissars'  The Economic Times - 1991

Nyatee Shinde , 'Not to be Laughed at', The Times of India , Bombay - 1990

Hemant Morparia, 'Images from the Real World' The Independent - 1990

Geeta Natarajan, Dotted with Poignant Antithesis' Free Press Journal - 1990

Rukmani Anandani, 'In Camera' Sunday Mail, New Delhi  - 1987

Ashok Tharavadi , 'Sharma's Truth' Aside , Madras - 1987

Ritu Khanna, 'Thats why I never got married, City Scan - New Delhi 1987

Santo Datta, ' Sheer Poetry of Formal Elements' The Indian Express - 1986

Partha Pratim Chatterjee ' The Probing Eye' The Economic Times - 1986

Arindam Sen Gupta,  'Moments Comment on the Times, The Patriot -1986

E. Alkazi, Art Heritage Catalogue 1985/86 Art Heritage, New Delhi - 1985

Seminars, Workshops and Lectures:

India Habitat Centre, New Delhi - 2007

India Habitat Centre, New Delhi - 2006

Silkroad Gallery, Tehran – 2005

Oracle,   Goa –2003

After the Revolution, refereed conference on digital media RMIT, Melbourne–2002

Weekend of Ideas, Manning Clark House, Canberra -2002

Shared Heritiage, University of Canberra, Canberra -2001

Canberra School of Art, Photo Media, Canberra - 2001

World Press Photo Exhibition seminar, Colombo - 2000

Australia: Portraying a Nation seminar, New Delhi 1999

Ninth Triennale's International Artists' Workshop, Lecture at New Delhi-1997

Eicher Galllery, New Delhi 1997

KHOJ International Artist's Workshop: Lecture at Modinagar - 1997

Face to Face: A lecture on Indian Studio Photography at the Nederlands Foto

Instituit, Rotterdam - 1997

  Indian Photography : Lecture organised by the British Council at Bharat

Bhavan

Bhopal - 1997

Shoreditch Foto Bienalle: Lecture at Seminar organised by bhe Biennale and

Creative Camera magazine, London - 1996

Colloquium on the National Cultural Policy organised by the Department of

Culture, Government of India, New Delhi-1992

State and Status of Photography in India: A national seminar organised by

the Forum of Contemporary Photographers, North Zone Cultural Center and the

India International

Center, New Delhi - 1992

In Search of the Avant Garde, Seminar on Contemporary Indian Photography at

the India International Center, New Delhi – 1992

  

Teaching workshops:

World Press Photo and Barefoot Gallery workshop, Colombo - 2000

Pathshala - South Asian School of Photography, Dhaka - 2000

School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi - 1995

National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi - 1993/1994

School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi - 1989

Project Support Communication Workshop organised by UNICEF and

CENDIT, New Delhi - 1985

Grants and Commissions:

Australian High Commission and Australia India Council commission to

Photograph and curate an exhibition on Australia - 'Australia: Portraying a Nation "

British Council and Charles Wallace grants to travel through Great Britain and work with "The Shifting Focus"